gabi anh dao

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

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 ❌⭕️❌ 🦇🩸💉 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

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

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 😈 🩸🩸🩸 "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.”

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

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. 🩸🦟📡

🌱 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 NL 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

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.

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 ⛺️🏳️‍⚧️

Our film Resurrect Me as a Parasite has been selected for its World premiere at the 69th BFI London Film Festival @britishfilminstitute ! ❤️‍🔥🩸🧛‍♀️ ✨️This is our first collaborative, 16mm film and was truly a little film that could✨️ We are honoured to be featured in the programme Shadows of the Living, alongside films by Natasha Tontey, Alice Diop & Zhenia Stepanenko. We'll also be there for a Q&A following the screening. 16th October, ICA @icalondon 20:40 Box Office opens September 16 Members priority booking open now Link in bio for more details 🔗 Much gratitude to everyone who supported this film in various ways 🙏❤️ @amartefonds , K.M. Hunter Charitable Foundation and Noor Alé @noor.means.light Resurrect Me as a Parasite (2025) A vampiric trio move through sacred ruins, where bodies blur, relics stir, and both life and death appear in shadow. Cast and Crew: Directed, written and edited by Gabi Dao & Lou Lou Sainsbury Cinematography by Gabi Dao & Lou Lou Sainsbury Performances by James Parnell @raezor_beam , Ailo Ribas @half.bird , Gabi Dao and Max Lester @robbie_downer_jr Sound, music and mix by John Brennan @johnmoeb and Elisa Ferrari @xelisaferrarix Colour by Lou Lou Sainsbury Additional macro cinematography by Hans Smid #BFILondonFilmFestival #LFF

[bạn đến chơi nhà / screening] Gabi Dao & Lou Lou Sainsbury Gabi @postdao , our friend from 2022, just returned back in Hanoi for a few weeks. Coming back to Hanoi after their group show in 2022 - Foliage IV at VCCA, This intimate screening is our catch up with their practice, along with Gabi’s peer and collaborator - Lou Lou Sainsbury @loulousainsbury , whose work we would also love to introduce firstly. Currently a 2025 resident in Jan van Eyck Academie (NL) and focusing on the bat in context of the COVID-19 pandemic, Gabi’s current research has expanded to thinking about other figures that are culturally scorned and occupy spaces of fantasy, horror and reality— mosquitos and vampires. Gabi has been focusing on how the ongoing, porous, bodily exchanges that humans have with these more-than-human characters can be understood as queer. Their interested in this queerness as a radical form of sensory understanding, experience, embodiment and meaning making that re-enchants our relationship with our world, stewarding a desire for a better one in the midst of varying polycrises. Meanwhile, Lou Lou focuses on making connections between spirituality, medicalisation, colonialism and technology - her tricksterish work attempts to excavate a historical and imagined past of queer and trans life within the brokenness of human and more-than-human worlds. Read more about Gabi & Lou Lou in the comments below! Screening menu for Saturday, September 6th (06/09/2025) ⏰ 20:00 descending notes (18:06) A fantastic body (10:57) Parasitic Girl: Episode 1 - The Wind Unravels Us (7:32) Sweet Blood in Stagnant Waters (26:50) Lucifer falls from Heaven at Dawn (13:33) Ressurrect me as a Parasite (9:50) With English subtitles only. DM to save a seat! Pic credit: stills from Lou Lou & Gabi’s work in order of screening, G(abi)-D by Julia Dahee Hong

Join us for A♡CUTE♡puncture(*)—a night of radical tenderness, vampiric poetics, and decolonial ecologies, where art pierces through the mundane to reveal worlds of queer possibility. Featuring performances, film screenings, and collective map-making, this event invites you to confront, heal, and reimagine the boundaries of body, memory, and land. ⚡ PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS 1. LUCY LAI: You Are Enough – Hair Piece: A Love Letter and Act of Rebellion German-Vietnamese artist Lucy Lai transforms the gallery into a site of feminist insurrection with a performance that unravels the paradoxes of womanhood under patriarchy. Through ritual and rebellion, You Are Enough reclaims bodily autonomy as a radical act of self-love—a defiant whisper against the noise of perfectionism and control. 2. FILM SCREENINGS: Gabi Dao & Lou Lou Sainsbury Resurrect Me as a Parasite (2025): A haunting 16mm voyage through limestone quarries and sacred grottos, where vampirism blurs life/death, gender, and parasitism. Water, blood, and stone pulse with erotic aliveness in this eco-horror fable inspired by Langston Hughes. Lucifer Falls from Heaven at Dawn (2023): A bat marionette’s odyssey through colonial mythologies, echoing the xenophobic scapegoating of COVID-19. Puppetry becomes a tool to dissect the "uncharismatic fauna" of capitalism. 3. KIM DOAN QUOC(**): Re-writing Saint Gióng + Collective Map Workshop Paris-based artist Kim Doan Quoc reimagines Vietnam’s mythic hero Saint Gióng, then invites you to join Foliating Memories—a participatory mapping of lands we fight for, grieve, or dream into being. Contribute to this living archive (credited or anonymous), which may seed a decolonial ecology publication. ✨ Why A♡CUTE♡puncture? Like a needle’s sharp kiss, this event punctures dominant narratives to inject queer futures: where trauma becomes art, bats become kin, and maps become spells. Come bleed, heal, and conspire with us. 🎟️ Free entry. All are welcome. However we highly recommend you buy drink and food (@Abracado vegan avail) at AQM to support out call for Gaza. (Portions of the workshop may be recorded for collaborative research; consent requested on-site.) (*) given by Ngân