Ali Van

Ali Van

USA

Ali Van practices axiology, moving within living architecture, gastronomic ancestry, silent geography, and manner song. She was born in New York, nurtured through Hong Kong, and appertains to mountains and Minnesota. Van received a BA from Yale University and an MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts. Her work centers in languages of love and figures its radius with light and psyche. She has presented in Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, USA, Japan, Thailand, Singapore, Taiwan, China, and Hong Kong.

SEMOH REHTE


M19–2022
Interlocking waves, sound
variable size

Ali Van energizes the South Song exhibition hall in Hangzhou Museum with sound 19 times throughout the exhibition, choosing to swell in reading motion for memories between gibbous, eclipsed, and gradus moons. Through recitation and syncopate writings, her lingering cogitations devise strength in 9 frames with focus on her invisible pavilion, a hearth relishing time in this world. Accompanying sound we find interlocking waves inside and outside the Southern Song exhibition hall, a visual exegesis of multilayered tone. By interlocuting life with play, Ali draws force to wormholes in compression, rendering beyond clear our changing times with a tender gravitation toward haptic focus, forensic form, and rhythmic tongues.

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