Pan Daijing: Echo, Moss and Spill

The artist and composer Pan Daijing (b. 1991, Guiyang; lives in Berlin) presents her first large-scale live exhibition in Asia as the grand finale of trust & confusion. Comprising durational performances as well as multiple video and sound installations, Pan’s work seeks proximity with the visitors by proposing a profoundly intimate form of shelter akin to the musicality of the space. It immerses visitors into voices and gestures that guide, accompany, and incline inward. All that had been accumulating on this floor since May—sculptures, routines, listening tools, and images, by many artists—has disappeared.

For Pan, the act of voicing today has an existential allure as it can reveal a deeply personal dimension of life in an age of damage, loss, and longing. Acknowledging the sense of collective solitude, Echo, Moss and Spill spins parallel worlds of science fiction and vocal power. Hope, despair, and trance here are inseparable, time is suspended, visual and sonic landscape—distorted. All-in continuous movement. 

Working at the intersection of music and the visual arts, Pan has exhibited and performed works at institutions, museums, and festivals internationally, such as commissioned performance installations for the 13th Shanghai Biennale (2021), Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (2020), Tate Modern, London (2019), and the Biennale of Moving Image, Geneva (2018).

About trust & confusion
trust & confusion is an exhibition about the conversation of certainty and chance; the transformative power of bodies, intangibles, and ephemeral encounters; music and magic; and the luck of being alive. Evolving, accumulating, the exhibition unfolds over several episodes, on site and online, from May 2021 to January 2022.

Full info here.

Curated by Xue Tan and Raimundas Malašauskas, with associate curator Tom Engels and assistant curators Louiza Ho and Erin Li.