Tai Shani

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The Neon Hieroglyph: Astrolatrous Communes IV, 2022. Photograph © Brotherton Lock. Courtesy the Artist and Gathering.
© Brotherton Lock, Courtesy Tai Shani and Gathering
Tai Shani’s artistic practice, comprising performance, film, photography, and installation, uses experimental writing as a guiding method. Oscillating between theoretical concepts and visceral details, Shani’s texts attempt to create poetic coordinates in order to cultivate, fragmentary cosmologies of marginalised nonsovereignty. Taking cues from both mournful and undead histories of reproductive labour, illness and solidarity, her work is invested in recovering feminised aesthetic modes – such as the floral, the trippy or the gothic – in a register of utopian militancy. In this vein, the epic, in both its literary long-form and excessive affect, often shapes Shani’s approach: Her long-term projects work through historical and mythical narratives, such as Christine de Pizan’s allegorical city of women or the social history of psychedelic ergot poisoning. Extending into divergent formats and collaborations, Shani’s projects examine desire in its (infra-)structural dimension, exploring a realism that materially fantasises against the patriarchal racial capitalist present. Tai Shani is the joint 2019 Turner Prize winner together with Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock and Oscar Murillo. Her work has been shown extensively in Britain and internationally.
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Tai Shani. Portrait courtesy the Artist and Gathering
Tai Shani. Portrait courtesy the Artist and Gathering

B. 1976 in London. Lives and works in London.

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2022 Your Arms Outstretched Above Your Head, Coding With The Angels, Gathering. London, UK

2021  The Neon Hieroglyph, Manchester lnternational Festival. Manchester, UK

2021 Sol LeWitt/Mahler Foundation Carla Fendi Foundation. Spoleto, ltaly

2020 Tragodia. Grazer Kunstverein, Austria

2020 Transmissions (Founder and co-curator). The lnternet

2019 Tragodia, Temple Bar Gallery. Dublin, Ireland

2019 Tragodia, Moravian Gallery. Brno, Czech Republic

2019 Turner Prize, Turner Contemporary. Margate, UK

2019 Andromedan Sad Girl, Centro Centro. Madrid, Spain

2019 Tragodia, Temple Bar Gallery. Dublin, lreland

2019 DC Psy Chic Anem One, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. Turin, Italy

2018 DC Semiramis, Glasgow lnternational (Director's Programme). Glasgow, UK

2018 DC Semiramis, The Tetley. Leeds, UK

2017 Andromedan Sad Girl, Wysing Arts Centre. Cambridge, UK 

2017 Dark Water: The Dead of Night, CGP. London, UK

2016 A Mysterical Day, Serpentine Galleries. London, UK

2016 Moans of Approaching Death, Tate. London, UK

2016 Radar, commission Loughborough University. Loughborough, UK

2016 Dark Water: The Dead of Night, CGP. London, UK

2015 Double Feature, Schirn Kunsthalle. Frankfurt, Germany

2013 Silver Fiat Vox Xero, Kline and Coma. London, UK

2011 Anti-Antigone End Time, FRAC Nord Pas de Calais for Loop. Barcelona, Spain

2010 W.O.W. Noumenon Dilation: Reduced to 3 Artprojx. London, UK

2020 Last Night I Dreamt I was Venus... Barbican. London, UK

2020 Tai Shani ICA Screentest, lCA. London, UK

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023 New Ancients, Guts Gallery, London, UK

2023 you can now enter: notes on immersion, CLIMA. Milan, Italy

2022 You Are a Wave and I Am a Wave, Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Berlin, Germany

2022 Testament, CCA Goldsmiths. London, UK

2021  British Art Show 9, Touring. UK

2021 100 Years of conviviality: what you can see is what you can imagine, Kunstnernes Hus. Oslo, Norway

2020 Our Ashes Make Great Fertilizer, Public Gallery. London, UK

2020 Monsteribeauty, Lychee One. London, UK

2019 Alias, Netwerk. Aalst, Belgium

2019 All His Ghosts Must Do My Bidding, Wysing Arts Centre. Cambridge, UK

2019 Snowcrash, lMT Gallery. London, UK

2018 Still I Rise, Nottingham Contemporary, De La Warr Pavilion, Arnolfini. Bristol, UK

2018 Beaconiflare Caustic Coastal. Manchester, UK

2018 Orgasmic Streaming Organic Gardening Electroculture, Chelsea Space. London, UK 

2017 Plural Melts: Household Values, Yvonne Lambert Gallery. Berlin, Germany

2016 Reality Production, Tensta Konsthall. Stockholm, Sweden

2016 (A=O) The archive of epistemic collapse, MACAO. Milan, Italy

2016 The Serpentine Miracle Marathon, The Serpentine Galleries. London, UK

2016 Preserves and Presences, lrish Museum of Modern Art. Dublin, Ireland

2016 Anathema, Danielle Arnaud. London, UK

2014 Mirrorcity, Hayward Gallery. London, UK

2014 For as Long as You Like Gaudel de Stampa. Paris, France

2014 Myth-Science-Colloquium, Reactor Halls E1O. Nottingham, UK

2014 Obliteration Device, lMT Gallery. London, UK

2013 Anthology Live Film in Space, Camden Arts Centre. London, UK

2013 Open Heart Surgery, The Moving Museum. London, UK

2013 Drawing Biennial 2013, The Drawing Room. London, UK

2013 Unconscious Archives, Cafe Oto/Apiary Studios. London, UK

2013 An Arrangement in White, XO. Leeds, UK

2012 Revolver, Matt's Gallery. London, UK

2012 Visionary Kingdom, The Arnolfini. Bristol, UK

2012 WE ARE THE TIME, Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Amsterdam, Netherlands

2012 Les Fleurs du Mal - New Art from London, AWANGARDA. Wroclaw, Poland

2011 More Soup and Tart, Barbican. London, UK

2011 Contemporary Art at Festival,  Arts Council/UP Projects Commission 

2011 Good Intentions, Hezi Cohen Gallery. Tel Aviv, Israel

2011 Music as Medium: Tate Shots commission, Tate Britain. London, UK

2011 Diffusions, Tate Britain. London, UK

2011 Tableau Vivant: A Wandering Retrospective Prospect, 1.5. New Orleans, USA