2021 MFA Thesis Exhibition
No Vacancy

Rita Song was born in 1996 and raised in the northeast of China. She started her training in art at a very young age and further developed her interests at Tsinghua University. Since 2014, she has focused on craft art, especially fiber art, where has been practiced with a variety of materials. She also engaged in furniture design and tapestry design.

Rita is currently a graduate student at Parsons School of Design, continuing her study in the Fine Arts Program. She has a wide-ranging practice which includes sculpture, installation, painting, and experimental films and her work addresses themes of dreams and the subconscious.

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It’s Not a Dream

4′ 21″

As an interdisciplinary artist, I view all material as potential metaphor. My practice includes experimentations in sculptures, paintings, videos and installations. I became interested in dream experiences, and in particular, the relationship between subconscious activities and reality during the process of investigating one’s inner psychological world. My works mainly focus on how dreams and memories reflect each other as recurring moments by repeating and emphasizing certain behaviors or images in dreams. Starting from a personal perspective, I aim to approach the in-between space of the real and surreal, conscious and unconscious, internal and external. And I try to resonate with others’ experiences and feelings that are shared in our collective unconscious. My recent work has included some experimental films in which I’m curious to see how dream scenarios are reconstructed and narrated through the waking state.