Belly-up Dream (Dog or Fish?) | Zoe Williams + Sasha Wilde

On April 4th, at 6 p.m., prepare to be swept away into the captivating realm of the inaugural exhibition of the Belly-up Dream (Dog or Fish?) program. Enter the enigmatic world crafted by the visionary artist Zoe Williams (UK/FR), where the lines between desire and despair dissolve into a mesmerizing tapestry. The exhibition pulsates with the poignant mythos of Eros, inviting you to revel in the oscillating currents of life's unpredictable rhythms and dreamlike intimacy.

Zoe Williams's works are a testament to sensuality, rebellion, and the transient essence of existence with whispers of forgotten desires and unspoken yearnings, coaxing you to shed the shackles of mundane existence and plunge into the vortex of energies.

But the journey doesn't end there. At 7 p.m., the stage comes alive with the ethereal performance of Sasha Wilde (UK/LT), a sonic sorceress weaving a spellbinding tapestry of sound. Prepare to be enchanted as Sasha embarks on a sonic odyssey, a ritual of vocal witchcraft that draws inspiration from the depths of personal experience and the pulsating rhythms of pop music.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

Zoe Williams (she/her) lives and works in Marseille and London. Her practice incorporates a range of mediums including installation, moving images, ceramics, drawing, and performance, and is often collaborative in its process and outcome. These elements are combined to create immersive objects and environments, which conjure a playful and corrosive interchange between notions of the erotic and the grotesque, craft, ritual, gender, consumption, and excess.

She is represented by Ciaccia Levi Gallery, Paris-Milan, and has worked with a range of international institutions including Fraeme, La Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille, Tate St-Ives, The Roberts Institute of Art, London, DCA, Dundee, Spike Island, Bristol, Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund, Mimosa House, and many others.

Sasha Wilde (they/them) are self-taught sound, performance, and multimedia artists with a penchant for secret & the forbidden. A Lithuanian migrant based between London & Helsinki. Main themes of artistic practice include monstrosity, (trans)embodiment, language, and migration, eroticism and death, Vajrayana Buddhism and occultism as well as moral panic. The latter topics are also very closely related to Sasha Wilde's personal traumatic experience while living in a small Lithuanian town.

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Curator of the exhibition: Agnė Bagdžiūnaitė
The architects of the exhibition: Matas Šatūnas and Laura Kaminskaitė
Exhibition technician: Laura Skučaitė
Curator of the discursive and performative program: Edvinas Grinkevičius
Visual graphics: Kornelija Zizaitė

The project is financed by the Lithuanian Council for Culture.