“What you want to hear, you hear not. For what finds its way out from the underground and the out there is spoken in rhythms and tones, in a language that solicits a different hearing.”

- Trinh T. Minh-ha, in Elsewhere, Within Here (2010)

Refrains is a curatorial project that examines Edouard Glissant’s concept of opacity through the framework of language—in its sound, text, narration, translation and censorship. In a group exhibition, we present a multidisciplinary dialogue of sculpture, performance, writing, moving image and textiles.

Embracing illegibility over fluency, 𝑹𝒆𝒇𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔 exhibits the experiences of artists from the Southeast Asian diaspora through fragments of clarity and noise. Each work carries a phantasmological quality: sculpted, drawn, sewn or captured by hidden hands. Together, the artworks converse with one another across borders and tongues, embracing the multiplicities of national identity and lingua francas.

Refrains features the work of:

Yadanar Aung, Lu Lei, Arty Nicharee, Aarti Pillai, Liszu Tan, Moses Tan

With performances by:

Liszu Tan with Ezra Escobar, Yadanar Aung

This exhibition is supported by Shoes Off (@weareshoesoff), a growing collective and network of creatives based between the UK and Southeast Asia.

Free entry - for more info, visit https://outhouse.gallery