Moe Satt: Rest the Thumbs on the Cheekbones

“Rest the Thumbs on the Cheekbones”, the first European solo exhibition by artist Moe Satt from Myanmar, brings a new commission alongside recent and early works in conversation to showcase the artist’s relentless, dynamic exploration of embodiment, identity, and political resistance. The exhibition builds on Satt’s two-year residency at Rijksakademie from 2022-2024 as well as his 2020 residency at Delfina Foundation, and extends into a collaboration with Tate Modern.

At the forefront of a generation of artists from Myanmar that emerged in the 2000s, Satt is most known for his conceptual, performance, and video works that experiment with his own body as a field of symbolism and sense making. The exhibition title is excerpted from his artist book “f n’ f (face and fingers)”(2024), which details how to transition through his choreography of 108 combinations of face and fingers.