Taey Iohe
Taey Iohe is an artist whose work spans diverse media, including moving images, sound, social practice, and collective actions through an eco-crip lens. Their approach fuses research-based work with personal narratives that challenge socio-botanical entanglements within environmental hormones, medical/environmental humanities, and climate justice.
Taey currently focuses on Leak Research, exploring how bodily and planetary leakages are intertwined through the water’s edge; include Canvey Island in Essex, Morecambe Bay in Lancashire, Irish Sea, and the waterways of London.
Taey often works in collaborations; a co-founder of the Decolonising Botany Working Group and has presented a performance, A Refusing Oasis, at Documenta 15.
They are half of the collective duo, Breakwater, exploring social practice across subjects related to climate grief and migrants’ lived experiences, excavating counter-narratives centered around spiritual knowledge and the political resonances of landscape.
Taey is also a working member of the Feminist Duration Reading Group and a founder of Care for Collective Curatorial, making collective curatorial inquiry as a caring practice.
Taey has exhibited internationally, with support including Arts Catalyst, Barbican Centre, Camden Arts Centre, Estuary Festival, FACT Liverpool, Flat Time House, Heart of Glass, Ignota Books, Liverpool Biennial, Nottingham Contemporary, Paul Mellon Centre, Stanley Pickers Gallery, and Up Projects in the UK; ARKO Art Center, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, and Seoul Museum of Art in Korea; Documenta 15, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, HFBK Hamburg, and Zebra Poetry Film Festival in Germany.
Taey is a research associate at CCA Derry~Londonderry (2023-25) and a Somerset House Resident supported by the Somerset House Exchange bursary programme (2022-24). They teach at the BA Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts.
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For collaboration, enquiry, commission, or to say hello: taey.iohe@gmail.com