Su-Mei Tse: Floating Memories

Su-Mei Tse: Floating Memories is a new sound installation at the Gardner Museum by Luxembourg artist Su-Mei Tse. The exhibition merges a wide range of media encompassing sculpture, video, and sound into a single poetic form. Floating Memories has the pared-down aesthetic quality of minimalism with an emotional charge. The objects, images, and sounds are positioned to draw the viewer into an intimate and sensual encounter with art.

Su-Mei Tse came to the Gardner Museum as an Artist-in-Residence in 2007. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including one-person shows at Art Tower Mito, Japan (2009); Seattle Art Museum, Seattle (2008); PS1, New York (2006); the Casino, Forum d'Art Contemporain, Luxembourg (2006); the Renaissance Society, Chicago (2005); Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Denmark (2005); and the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (2004).

In 2007, Tse collaborated with artist Lee Mingwei on a two-part exhibition, Duologue, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Taiwan. Her work has also been shown at the 2006 Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial in Japan; the 26th São Paulo Biennial; and the 2003 Venice Biennale, where she was awarded the Golden Lion for Best National Participation for her three-part installation, Air Conditioned.

Tse has recently been awarded the prestigious Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco Prize for Contemporary Art (May 2009). She is represented by the Peter Blum Gallery, New York, where she will be opening an exhibition in November.

Su-Mei Tse lives and works in Berlin and Luxembourg. Floating Memories is realized in collaboration with Jean-Lou Majerus.

Su-Mei Tse: Floating Memories