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gabi dao at Z33, Hasselt
“The horrors persist but so do I”
Curated by Kevin Gallagher
May 7 – July 12, 2026
Last image: film in collaboration with Lou Lou Sainsbury
Photos: ©Silvia Cappellari, courtesy of the artist and Z33, Hasselt
@z33be @postdao @kevin_gallagher__ taken in Hasselt, Belgium by @postdao

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gabi dao’s solo exhibition ‘The horrors persist but so do I’ remains on view until 12 July at Z33. dao’s exhibition includes a new series of sculptural works and a collaborative film made with Lou Lou Sanisbury. Hope you can see it in the flesh before it closes!

“Within the exhibition of gabi dao we see souls in a process of transition: moving between
realms and states of being. The works interrogate this poignant interstitial space. For those
restlessly searching for a new form, hope lies in transformation. dao constructs a system of
belief where demonised creatures such as bats or vampires become figures of resilience for
racialised, queer and trans communities.

In the first gallery of dao’s exhibition, three small house-like structures made from hand-made
ceramic tiles and wood draw on the spiritual architecture of outdoor shrines commonly found
in Vietnam, East and Southeast Asia. Traditionally holding offerings such as food, drink, and
incense, these structures are sites of veneration, care and transmission. They also provide
comfort to ‘hungry ghosts’: restless souls that have died unjustly.

gabi dao’s shrines are not dedicated to specific individuals, but to a broader practice of
devotion. These shrines are adorned with imagery of bats, which are often seen positioned in
thresholds like windows, roofs or doorways. In dao’s work, they evoke guardians that move
between realms, echoing spiritual intermediaries such as angels in Christianity.

In the following room, dao presents the collaborative film Resurrect Me as a Parasite made
with artist Lou Lou Sainsbury. Filmed in part at a grotto in southern France dedicated to
Mary Magdalene, the work combines ritualistic imagery of ‘parasitic’ figures such as vampires
and mosquitoes: beings which are dependent on others to survive. Reclaiming these vilified
creatures, dao and Sainsbury ask us to rethink concepts of disgust, divinity, and desire.”

The exhibition is in collaboration with Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht.

@postdao @loulousainsbury @z33be @janvaneyckacademie #gabidao

📸 @silviacappellari by @postdao

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4 months ago

Videoex2026 presents this year’s:
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 04 – Drifting

Featuring works of:

Gabi Dao & Lou Lou Sainsbury — @postdao @loulousainsbury
Patrick Marshall — @bistrik7
Simon Rieth — @simon_rieth
Grau Del Grau
Nguyễn Phượng Kiều Anh — @ngp.kieuanh
Matti Harju — @maattvvv

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TUESDAY 26.05. 17:45 Festivalkino Cinema Z3
WEDNESDAY 27.05. 15:30 Festivalkino Cinema Z3

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INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 04 program:

Resurrect Me as a Parasite — Gabi Dao & Lou Lou Sainsbury
NL/CA/UK 2025, 16mm, 09:52 min

The 8th of April, 2024 — Patrick Marshall
US 2025, 16mm, 02:57 min

Le Mouvement Tragique des Sphères (The Tragic Movement of the Spheres) — Simon Rieth
FR 2025, HD, 12:50 min

The Next World — Grau Del Grau
US 2025, HD, 10:57 min

Trưa Lịm (Fallen Noon) — Nguyễn Phượng Kiều Anh
FR 2025, 16mm, 16:19 min

Yaris, Varis (Yaris, Crow) — Matti Harju
FI 2026, 16mm, 13:25 min by @postdao

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5 months ago

Meet gabi dao! 🦇

'The horrors persist but so do I' is on view until July 12. Admission is free.

@postdao is a Canadian artist based in the Netherlands. For their solo exhibition at Z33, dao presents a new installation and short film. Their work draws connections between the demonisation of animals such as mosquitoes or bats and narratives surrounding racialised, queer and trans communities.

Curator: Kevin Gallagher taken in Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Design and Architecture by @postdao

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Our world tour of Resurrect Me as a Parasite continues! 🤘🏼 Check the 2026 spring festival dates, programs and locations below. Lots of love and thanks to the programmers, supporters and cast and crew of this little film that could ❌⭕️❌

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April 17
Athens International Film & Video Festival, Ohio, USA
Program: 9:30pm - Q-Pop Experimental
@aifvf

May 2
Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival, Hawick, SCT
Program: 2:30pm - Angels Fill Me With Horror
@alchemyfilmandarts

May 2
TILDE: Melbourne Trans & Gender Diverse Film Festival, Naarm, AUS
Program: 5:00pm- Influx International Shorts
@tildemelbourne

May 3
San Diego Underground Film Festival, USA
Program: 11:00am- Shorts Program No.4
@sdundergroundarts by @postdao

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6 months ago

Resurrect Me as a Parasite will be screening at @iffr at the end of this month! Tickets go on sale for tonight at 20:00🫀Come see our film in the programme History keeps me alive at night at the following dates:

Friday 30 January 2026 | 12.30 - 14.06
LantarenVenster 3

Friday 30 January 2026 | 18.45 - 20.21
LantarenVenster 4

Thursday 5 February 2026 | 14.30 - 16.06
Podium Islemunda – Filmzaal

Saturday 7 February 2026 | 09.30 - 11.06
KINO 4

Also really excited to be sharing the double-bill programme with Tianyi Zheng's @zheng_tianyi Where Comes Mulan <3

Link in bio for tickets 🔗🩸

Resurrect Me as a Parasite (2025)

A vampiric trio facilitates the transition of a new host across a former limestone quarry and the sacred mountain grotto of Mary Magdalene, troubling the binaries of life, death, gender and parasitism.

A film by Gabi Dao & Lou Lou Sainsbury

Cast
James Parnell @raezor_beam - Vampire Daddy
Ailo Ribas @half.bird - Ailo
Max Lester @robbie_downer_jr - The Count
gabi dao @postdao - Tribeca

Cinematography: Lou Lou Sainsbury, gabi dao
Sound, Music & Mix : John Brennan @johnmoeb & Elisa Ferrari @xelisaferrarix
Editing: Lou Lou Sainsbury, gabi dao
Colour: Lou Lou Sainsbury
Macro Insect Cinematography: Hans Smid
Citations: Langston Hughes
Producer: Mosquito Girlfriend

Supported by: Amarte Fonds @amartefonds and the KM Hunter Charitable Foundation by @postdao

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9 months ago

Announcing! 🚨 Our film Resurrect Me as a Parasite has been selected for International FIlm Festival Rotterdam and London Short Film Festival! 🖤

Jan 24 - @londonshortfilmfest Gothic, Curzon Soho, London
Jan 30 - @iffr RTM, Rotterdam (more info soon)

Tickets are in the link in bio! 🔗

Thanks to everyone who has screened and hosted our film so far! Hope to see you in London and Rotterdam 😈

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"A vampiric trio facilitates the transition of a new host across a former limestone quarry and the sacred mountain grotto of Mary Magdalene, troubling the binaries of life, death, gender and parasitism. Monuments to female saints become poses of living queer memory, as skeletal remains are transformed with embellishments. A mosquito draws blood with its proboscis and hormones are drawn using a syringe, as the remnants of an extracted zone is now overgrown with lifeforms.” taken in Luxe Voyage by @postdao

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10 months ago

Gabi Dao, Open Studios 2025

During their residency at Jan van Eyck, gabi made two films that focus on the queer, porous, bodily exchanges between humans and these more-than-human characters. Exploring how this queerness can be a radical, sensory way of understanding and re- enchanting our relationship with our world during times of polycrisis.

Their Open Studios installation brings together two films—Sweet Blood in Stagnant Waters and Resurrect Me as a Parasite, in collaboration with artist/filmmaker Lou Lou Sainsbury—alongside slip-cast ceramic bottles, limestone, and broken machinery sourced from ENCI, the First Dutch Cement Industry. These films consider kinship networks between culturally scorned figures inhabiting spaces of fantasy, horror, and reality – mosquitos and vampires, both reliant on blood for survival. The porcelain and stoneware bottles together with the films, the machinery and limestone form a ruinous constellation, exploring the correlation between the bottle, bodies, and reproduction.

@postdao

#janvaneyckacademie #jveopenstudios #artistinresidence #artistresidency #maastricht taken in Jan van Eyck Academie by @postdao

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Last week we just returned from the world premiere of Resurrect Me as a Parasite at the BFI London Film Festival @britishfilminstitute as part of Experimenta at the @icalondon 🫶❤️‍🔥 huge thanks to the LFF programming team for believing in our lil 16mm film, and @erik_martinson_ for hosting our screening. It was such a fun week!

Pics show the LFF screening, as well as different moments of the production including our sxc crew of vampires @robbie_downer_jr Max Lester, @raezor_beam James Parnell and @half.bird Ailo Ribas, as well as the (high) femme saints of Sainte Baume mountain. Also huge thanks also to @johnmoeb John Brennan and @xelisaferrarix Elisa Ferrari for composing the incredible electro acoustic score that drives the film. 🩸🦟📡 taken in BFI London Film Festival by @postdao

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a year ago

🌱 ARTIST FOCUS: Gabi Dao - LAST WEEK

At the Hunting Pavilion in Plantentuin Meise, Gabi Dao presents Sweet Blood in Stagnant Waters, partially filmed on-site, including the Victoria greenhouse, just beyond the view from the pavilion.

Drawing on science fiction, fantasy and body horror, the new film follows mosquito-inspired research into Rubiaceae and cinchona, key to the malaria vaccine. Three cyborgs, the Angels, leave Earth for a proxy planet, pursued by a human-mosquito mutant - the unborn child of Mary. They move through dreamlike spaces: former factories, botanical landscapes, labs, archives, bedrooms, reflecting histories of colonialism and resource extraction.

Dialogues explore queer, more-than-human intimacies, while fragmented, macro-cinematic visuals reveal moments of kinship and optimism amid crisis and alienation.

📍Plantentuin Meise (Nieuwelaan 38)
🗓 27.06–28.09.25 | Daily 10:00–18:00
✨ Closing event 28.09 (link in bio)
📸 @michieldecleene

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ARTIST FOCUS: Gabi Dao - LAATSTE WEEK

In het Jachtpaviljoen presenteert Gabi Dao Sweet Blood in Stagnant Waters, deels opgenomen op locatie, met de Victoriakas als belangrijke plek, net buiten het zicht vanuit het paviljoen.

Geïnspireerd door sciencefiction, fantasy en body horror, volgt de nieuwe film Dao’s onderzoek naar Rubiaceae en cinchona. Drie cyborgs, de Angels, verlaten de Aarde voor een surrogaat planeet, achtervolgd door een mens-mug mutant - het ongeboren kind van Mary. Ze bewegen door droomachtige ruimtes: voormalige fabrieken, botanische omgevingen, laboratoria, archieven, slaapkamers - locaties met sporen van kolonialisme en exploitatie.

Dialogen tonen queer, meer-dan-menselijke intimiteit, terwijl gefragmenteerde macro-cinematografische beelden momenten van verbondenheid en optimisme laten zien te midden van crisis en vervreemding.

@postdao taken in Plantentuin Meise by @postdao

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a year ago

Duotones: A series of artists talking

Talk #3: gabi dao and Rana Hamadeh
Moderated by Arsalan Ishaqzai
Thursday, October 2, 2025 6:30-8.30
A Tale of A Tub, Justus van Effenstraat 44, Rotterdam

(𝘋𝘶𝘵𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴)

Join us on Thursday, October 2, for the continuation of Duotones: A Series of Artists Talking—a new program of artist talks organised by A Tale of A Tub, Studio Art Office/CBK R’dam and TENT. This time we’re switching roles: Instead of being hosted by TENT, the event will take place at A Tale of A Tub with TENT taking over the curating with Studio Art Office/CBK R’dam. Unfolding throughout 2025, the series is an attempt to put different generations of Rotterdam-based artists in conversation, wherein each talk will see two artists paired together, during which they will (casually) present their practice before a third artist will act as moderator for a conversation.

More often than not, we encounter each other’s work as a finished product, presented to the public in the form of a thoroughly thought-out outcome. Given this, aside from connecting the different communities of the Rotterdam art scene—such as longtime locals and newcomers who have recently settled in the city—the goal is to also try and enter the working process while it is in development, say, having early conversations in public. Drinks and snacks will be provided and the hope is that the series becomes a social staple for many of us to finally meet. taken in A Tale of a Tub by @postdao

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A vampiric trio move through sacred ruins, where bodies blur, relics stir, and both life and death appear in shadow

curation @a_f__lin @mayswoon
direction & design @jeng_au
⛺️🏳️‍⚧️ by @postdao

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