Edinburgh-born artist Rae-Yen Song is exhibiting an ambitious solo exhibition at Tramway in Glasgow’s vast gallery space. A multidisciplinary artist whose practice is described as an ever-evolving exercise in world-building, informed by personal ancestral mythologies, Daoism, diasporic-futurism, family ritual, more-than-human politics, science fact and fiction.

The massive piece amounts to a sub-aquatic world, reflecting the tragedy and myth surrounding the death by drowning of tua mak – an ancestor of Song’s – at the age of thirteen, off the coast of Singapore in the 1950s. Song has created a spectacle, a memorial and a refuge that weave together familial history, ancestry and mythology, in a watery world populated by ancestral characters, comprising newly-commissioned artworks in sculpture, textile, printmaking, sound, light and moving image. The artworks are entangled in the architectural embrace of an immense, tentacular beast stretching throughout the gallery space, which visitors can walk through and around, learning a story drawn from the artist’s own heritage and family mythology.

The exhibition is free to drop-in, with no ticket required.