‘It is about attending to and allowing for differences between sensibilities, between spheres, and between
types of experience.’ - On Freedom, Maggie Nelson

‘...art is characterized by the indeterminacy and plurality of the encounters it generates, be they between
a work and its maker, a work and its variegated audience, or a work of art and time.’
- On Freedom, Maggie Nelson

TACIT AFFINITIES is a collaborative exhibition by two visual artists, Yukiko Terada and Mareike Yin-Yee Lee, with sound artist Fredrik Rasten.
The installation is an abstract and distilled exploration of interactions and interrelations.
They have co-created an environment of sound, objects, physical and perceptual materials, exploring
their temporal and spatial relations with each other and the viewers, created specifically for
the Hosek Contemporary space at MS Heimatland.

This site-specific constellation features compositions that use the materiality of the boat as a
sounding vessel and ephemeral sculptures suggestive of human conversation, groupings
and energies. The connections and dialogues between the context, sound and visual works
cross-pollinate and are open and nuanced.

Yukiko Terada has created new work from the series ‘ Dialogue ’ for this
collaboration. In this series, the cloth is made of recycled material, often used to protect
furniture during transport or as a floor covering when painting a wall.
For ‘ Dialogue#01 ’, cut-outs from this cloth are used to create two pairs of shoes of
different sizes. The objects express diverse modes of communication. The shoes are symbolic
for people of different sex, ages and social circumstances. Fabric offers the matrix to give
emotional expression to this concept, especially since this material is the medium of the social
body.

Mareike Yin-Yee Lee’s iteration of sculptures, ‘ Between Us ’ (2021-22),
are spatially situated relative to and in dialogue with the ship, sound compositions and
Terada’s work. Crude, curved, shallow pools made of concrete and
holding water are interspersed throughout the space. Ephemeral mirror and glass organic shapes
stand tall on bright, color gradient poles, intermingling with the viewers and Terada’s
works. Pointing both to the imaginative realm and concrete ground, these sculptures are
explorations of the felt energies people exude and navigate.

Fredrik Rasten has composed a long form, looped piece of recordings of his adapted e-bowed
guitars. Rasten focuses his work on just intonation and the experiential and psycho-acoustic
aspects of tonal relations. In this way, the installation comprehends a variety of visual and
sonic experiences into their interrelations, depending on the spectator’s
movements and changing view-and-listening points. Where the music consists of tonal relations,
Lee and Terada’s visual works encompass human, spatial and object relations.