Finding Fingers

Have you ever looked at your hands and observed how your fingers can move and play? How many hand gestures can you think of? 

Join us for a special workshop, Finding Fingers, led by artist Moe Satt.

Inspired by Satt’s 2024 book, f n’ f (face and fingers), which explores the artist’s choreography of 108 face and finger combinations, participants will observe and experiment with hand gestures, integrating them with facial and body movements. Through this interactive process, you will explore new ways to express and communicate through gestures.

In this informal workshop, participants will also have the chance to create a zine inspired by Finding Fingers, which they can take home at the end.

All workshop equipment and materials will be provided. Refreshments will also be available.

The workshop takes place alongside Satt’s first European solo exhibition, Rest the Thumbs on the Cheekbones, at Delfina Foundation.

If you wish to view the exhibition in advance of the workshop, it will be open from midday and will remain open until 20:00. For more information please visit the exhibition page. 

Biography

Moe Satt (b. 1983, Yangon, Myanmar, lives and works in Amsterdam) is a Burmese visual and performance artist who uses his own body as a symbolic field for exploring self, identity, embodiment, and political resistance. He is part of a renowned generation of experimental contemporary Burmese artists who overcame government censorship and oppression to engage with conceptual artwork, the body, and identity. His works deal with hand gestures and movement. Satt addresses provocative social and political issues in military-ruled Myanmar. He founded the Beyond Pressure International Performance Art Festival in Yangon, Myanmar, and he has participated in live arts festivals throughout Asia, Europe and the US. His work has been featured in several group exhibitions, The Spirits of Maritime Crossing – a Collateral event of the 60th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia: (2024), Documenta -15 (2022), Biennale Jogja XV (2019), Political Acts: Pioneers of performance art in Southeast Asia in Melbourne (2017); CAFAM Biennale, Beijing (2013); and Busan Biennale (2012). His works have been collected by the Tate Modern, Singapore Art Museum, Kadist Foundation, and TBA21. He was a finalist for the Hugo Boss Asia Art Award for Emerging Asian Artists in 2015. He completed an Artist Residency at Rijksakademie (2022 – 2024) and at Delfina Foundation (2020).