Exhibition by Rae-Yen Song about the immigrant experience and family mythology, with a living ecosystem pond that controls the room's lights and sounds.
Rae-Yen Song is back at FACT with •~TUA~• 大眼 •~MAK~•, an exhibition that runs from 18 September 2026 to 14 February 2027. It's a co-commission between FACT and Tramway in Glasgow, and it builds on work Song showed here back in 2022, continuing her long-term look at family mythology, ecology and Daoist logics. She describes it as her most ambitious project to date.
The title refers to a lost ancestor remembered only through family stories and myths—a thirteen-year-old who drowned at sea in 1950s Singapore. Song draws on the flux and resilience of the immigrant experience to reimagine the world around that loss. At the centre of the room is a glowing pond home to a living ecosystem of organic matter, invertebrates and microscopic life; cameras capture the movements in the water, which in turn control the room's shifting lights and sounds. Around it, artefacts crafted from textiles, glass, ceramic, willow, hair and cat fur drift through the space, and a giant inflatable macro-beast anchors the whole installation.
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It's a lot to take in—a living pond, a floating collection of materials, and a huge inflatable creature all working together—and it's on for a good while, from mid-September through to mid-February. You'll find it at FACT, 88 Wood Street, Liverpool, L1 4DQ.
