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Rae-Yen Song 宋瑞渊

Country: UK

Website:  https://rae-yen-song.com/

Rae-Yen Song 宋瑞渊 is an artist flowing with the immigrant experience of flux and resilience, hungry to ever-evolve and build things. Guided by Daoist ways of worlding, Song considers family as a hybrid organism, radically entwined with all other living things – continuously swirling in multi- space and time. Song masticates their vibrating qi, and grows a big belly to hold all of this entangled ancestry ...plop plop plop... warm excretions of other life stories to be sewn, watered and sung.

Selected recent solo exhibitions include: Tramway, Glasgow, UK (2025-26, including Glasgow International performance commission, 2026); William Hine Gallery, UK (2025); CCA Glasgow, UK (collated research exhibition & live programme, 2024); Aspex, Portsmouth, UK (2023); Quench Gallery, Margate (2022); DCA, Dundee, UK (2021); esea contemporary, Manchester, UK (2020). Forthcoming exhibitions include: Frac Delta, Angoulême, France (2026); CCA Goldsmiths, London, UK (2027). Selected recent and forthcoming group exhibitions include: British Art Show 10: A Chorus of Strangers, Hayward Gallery Touring, UK (touring: Coventry, Swansea, Bristol, Sheffield, Newcastle-Gateshead, 2026-28, forthcoming); Drawing Biennial 2026, Drawing Room, London, UK; Material Worlds: Contemporary Artists and Textiles, Hayward Gallery Touring, UK (touring: Warwick Art Centre, Warwick; Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham; The Wilson Gallery, Cheltenham; Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester, 2024-26); How Lies the Land?, Folkestone Triennial, UK (2025); 198th Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition, RSA, Edinburgh, UK (2024); Let the Song Hold Us, FACT Liverpool, UK (2022); Dislocations, Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow (2021); Fabric of Society, Glasgow International, UK (2021); SURVEY, Jerwood Arts, London, UK (touring: BALTIC, Gateshead; Bluecoat, Liverpool and G39, Cardiff, 2018-19).

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Virtual Tour: Let The Song Hold Us

Explore a virtual tour of Let The Song Hold Us. An exhibition of new immersive artworks that explore how music and song bring together the family and collective histories we inherit.

by FACT

Korakrit Arunanondchai and Alex Gvojic Songs for living 2021 Installation view at FACT Image by Rob Battersby WEB RES 25