In 2019 the foreign guest of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award
exhibition at Pražák Palace is Tai Shani, an artist from Great
Britain, who will present a brand new art project named Tragodía,
which will subsequently be exhibited in the Temple Bar Gallery in
Dublin and the Grazer Kunstverein.
Tai Shani's multidisciplinary practice, comprising
performance, film, photography and installation, revolves around
experimental narrative texts. Shani creates violent, erotic and
fantastical images told in a dense, floral language which
re-imagines female otherness as a perfect totality, set in a world
complete with cosmologies, myth and histories that negate
patriarchy. These alternate between familiar narrative tropes and
structures and theoretical prose in order to explore the
construction of subjectivity, excess and affects of the epic as the
ground for a post-patriarchal realism.
Tai Shani (*1976) was born in London is nominated for the
2019 Turner Prize. Shani has presented her work extensively in the
UK and abroad, recent exhibitions and commissions include,
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (2019); Athens Biennial, (2018);
Still INottingham Contemporary (2018); Glasgow International (2018)
Wysing Arts Centre (2017); Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm (2016);
RADAR commission, Loughborough University, (2016), Serpentine
Galleries (2016); Tate Britain (2016); Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
(2015); Southbank Centre, London (2014-15); Arnolfini, Bristol
(2013); Matt's Gallery, London (2012) and FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais
and Loop Festival, Barcelona (2011); The Barbican, London (2011);
ICA, London (2011).
www.taishani.com