Mira M. Yang develops work that engages with cultural transfer, memory, and belonging from a diasporic perspective. It emanates from something performative or staged, which holds the image of a transmission. To perform, in this sense, means to transmit signals, energies, and affects.

It is often a performing body that acts as the transceiver, although more recently M. Yang has also used animated sculptures made from machine parts as surrogates for absent human bodies.

For the exhibition Ensemble, which will be presented in two chapters at the Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the Fondation Pernod Ricard in Paris, M. Yang has developed new sound assemblages and a film, which are being shown in varying configurations.

To stay with the image of transmission, this also harbors the danger of a disturbance, interruption, or noise in which the signal is lost and becomes inaudible. M. Yang’s work marks moments of historical amnesia and absence, giving them a form that, although unable to restore…