Life after life: Vigil at Semester9

Mortality underlies our very existence, yet any conversation around it remains a taboo. Semester9‘s group exhibition “Vigil: Death and the Afterlife” at Loods6 invites us to sit with death and its liminal thresholds. Brought to life in collaboration with London-based gallery Shipton, Vigil unfolds in evocative three chapters of existential transition: physical bodily decay, the ephemeral suspension between life and transcendence, and a post-human future. Vigil – a period between death and burial – becomes a space for us to metaphysically and viscerally connect back to the rituals of our mortality. “By confronting these spaces, Vigil disrupts the Western tendency to relegate death to the periphery and reimagines it as an active, generative force,” shares curator Isabella Greenwood.”To keep vigil is a radical interruption—a refusal to let the symbolic order quietly assimilate death into the banal structures of modernity.”

Beyond immersive installation, sculpture, and painting, the exhibition will also hold live performances by Elif Satanaya Özbay will and Charlie Jimenez this Saturday the 30th. This is your gentle invitation to confront your own death and imagine a life beyond it.