The films and performances of Tai Shani create evocative cosmologies of interconnected being. Fantastical and dreamlike, her work seeks out the moments of intensity underpinning the production and play of images both existent and to come. Public and private trauma becomes the precipitant for an unfettered practice depicting emotional and psychological states, characters and scenarios. Dressed in handmade costumes and props, her films and performances are produced with an economy of expression that nevertheless continually teeters on the brink of ecstatic vision.
Tai Shani lives and works in London. Recent exhibitions and performances include Empire and Daughter Isotope as part of the Institute of Psychoplasmics; Pillow Talk at Shunt, and Double A Side at ARTIS Centre for Fine Art ‘s Hertogenbosch, Stedelijk Museum‘s Hertogenbosch.