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Experience Soñ Gweha's 'A Quiet Storm Blowin’': An Exhibition on Decolonial Ecology and Queer Eroticism

Discover a captivating multi-sensual exhibition landscape, blending installations, sound, and interactive workshops for visitors.

Soñ Gweha's solo exhibition, 'A Quiet Storm Blowin’', delves into the profound relationship between Earth's regeneration and the healing of racialized bodies. This transdisciplinary presentation frames pleasure and joy as essential tools for personal agency. Visitors can explore a rich multi-sensual landscape featuring installations, a DJ booth, a workshop area, and a library, all activated by a vibrant public program that continuously transforms the space.

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Exhibition summary

Soñ Gweha's solo exhibition 'A Quiet Storm Blowin’' explores the connection between the regeneration of the Earth and the healing of the racialized body, framing pleasure and joy as tools for agency. The exhibition unfolds as a multi-sensual landscape with installational pieces, a DJ booth, workshop area, and library, activating the space through a public program.

Curatorial context

Thinking and working within the perspective of decolonial ecology, artist, DJ, poet, and community organizer Soñ Gweha articulates strategies for inscribing pleasure and joy as tools for entering what they refer to as the “healing body.” Their transdisciplinary practice, spanning video, sculpture, installation, sound, and DJing, centers the power of queer eroticism and focuses on care, desire, friendship, and family bonds as sources for agency. Soñ Gweha’s first solo exhibition in Austria, 'A Quiet Storm Blowin’,' unfolds as a multi-sensual landscape that alternately serves as a stage, a resting zone, or a site of action and encounter, and then again all of these at once. With its focus on activation, the show encompasses—next to three installational pieces from Soñ Gweha—a DJ booth, a workshop area, and a library. A public live program hosted by the artist and local as well as international collaborators utilize these places and make the exhibition continuously transform itself.

Admission and ticket notes

The exhibition includes a DJ booth, workshop area, and library, with a public live program hosted by the artist and collaborators. Further details can be found in the accompanying brochure, including an interview with Soñ Gweha.

A Quiet Storm Blowin’ key exhibition facts

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Venue
Kunstraum Niederösterreich
Current status
Completed
Exhibition schedule
Oct 6, 2023 – Dec 2, 2023
Artist line / attribution
Soñ Gweha
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