Must See: "Su-Mei Tse: This is (not) a love song"
Artforum
November 2025
Artforum has included Su-Mei Tse: This is (not) a love song in their “Must-See Shows” list, an editors’ selection of essential exhibitions worldwide.
Su-Mei Tse is a multidisciplinary visual artist whose practice lyrically translates fleeting moments of existence, memory, and feeling into evocative works spanning photography, sculpture, and installation. Initially trained as a classical cellist, Tse's unique background deeply informs her practice, making the perception of visual elements central to a process that is not solely seen, but felt. Her work contemplates life questions by reflecting on notions of time and rhythm, capturing impressions from everyday existence—be it a passing thought, a transitory state, or a sensory experience.
In Tse’s exhibition This is (not) a love song, she continues her meditative exploration of fundamental existence while turning towards themes of origins and cyclic occurrences. She grounds the exhibition in classical thought and East Asian aesthetics alongside the primal elements of soil, wood, water, and air.