Art labor collective works within different communities, bringing in practitioners from diverse disciplines such as medicine, film-making, education, to bring to questions ideas of labour and social practice. The jrai dew sculpture garden is part of an ongoing series of sculptural presentations realised in collaboration with the jrai dew community of the highlands of central vietnam.

INES DOUJAK

PART OF THE TOURING EXHIBITION: A BEAST, A GOD, AND A LINE, CURATED BY COSMIN COSTINAS

2-10 FEBRUARY 2018 |  DHAKA ART SUMMIT

17 MARCH - 20 MAY 2018 |  PARA SITE, HONG KONG

6-24 JUNE 2018 |  TS1, YANGON

20 JULY - 7 OCTOBER 2018 |  MUSEUM OF MODERN ART IN WARSAW

Art Labor Collective works within different communities, bringing in practitioners from diverse disciplines such as medicine, film-making, education, to bring to questions ideas of labour and social practice. The Jrai Dew Sculpture Garden is part of an ongoing series of sculptural presentations realised in collaboration with the Jrai Dew community of the highlands of central Vietnam, where Art Labor collective member Cong Tung hails from. The project takes inspiration from Jrai spiritual beliefs of the transfiguration of the human after death. In the Jrai philosophy, humans go through many cycles of existence, where the final stage is to transform into dew (iangôm in Jrai language) evaporating into the environment – the state of non-being –signaling the beginning particles of new existence.

Commissioned by the Samdani Art Foundation, Para Site and Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie.