Kiang Malingue is pleased to present at its Tin Wan studio spaces Contraflow, showcasing recent paintings, lenticular prints, performative sculptures, installations and videos by Tromarama. The artist collective continues exploring the significance of the digital economy, the intersection of play and labour, retrieving traces of the personal and the intimate amidst data and statistics, as they reveal the infrastructures of social media, the production of happiness and simulated joy.

The titular piece Contraflow is a troupe of Himalayan salt lamps. Allegedly purificatory and good for nurturing a meditative state, the lamps scattered along the wall are activated by tweets that use hashtag #power, performing blinking dances choreographed by a binary code-translating machine. Representative of Tromarama’s longstanding interest in re-assessing the link between the analogue and the digital, the performative lamps shed a spectacular yet intimate light on other artworks that physicalise speculations.

Gallery address: 12 & 13/F, Blue Box Factory Building, 25 Hing Wo Street, Aberdeen