Boru Sibaso Paet, on the foam of the primordial sea

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
March 26 — July 16, 2023

Boru Sibaso Paet, on the foam of the primordial sea installed as part of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston’s exhibition, Hokusai: Inspiration and Influence

MFA Boston Interview — Kendall deBoer, Curator

“In her non-linear, open-ended work, Linda Sormin explores the charged lives of her materials. Assembling her installations from discarded objects, textural ceramics, and flickering gold leaf, the artist sees her art on a continuum with that of her Indonesian and Chinese-Thai ancestors.”

“Migratory, oceanic and fluctuating, Sormin’s installation offers a prismatic and expansive interpretation of themes present throughout Hokusai’s prints, bridging the two thematic constellations of water and landscape.”

“This artwork’s sound component includes bubbling rushes and evokes the sensation of submersion in water. Every so often, voices from the artist, her mother, her father and her nephew speak in partial and incomplete phrases that align, misalign, and sometimes glitch.”

Kendall deBoer, Curator

The artist acknowledges the support of Canada Council for the Arts, New York University, Patricia Sweetow and United Contemporary. Photography by Graham Collins and Linda Sormin.

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