Zadie Xa: in situ Solo exhibition at Guggenheim Bilbao

Zadie Xa will present her work as part of the Guggenheim Bilbao’s in situ series, a programme that invites artists to create site-specific works in dialogue with the gallery’s architecture to explore new ways of perceiving and inhabiting space.

Zadie Xa (b. 1983, Vancouver) is an artist of Korean-Canadian descent who works in London. Her multidisciplinary practice explores issues like identity, folklore and the transmission of the cultural heritage of the diaspora through storytelling, performance and immersive installation. Based on Korean mythology, shamanistic ritual, science fiction and her own experiences, Xa builds multisensory environments in which charlatans and hybrid beings disrupt the prevailing historical account. Through painting, textile, sculpture, sound and performance, Xa merges the construction of fantastical worlds with political and metaphysical inquiry.