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:mentalKLINIK’s Puff Out (2021) is currently on view at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco as part of the exhibition Rave Into the Future: Art in Motion, funded by the Warhol Foundation. The exhibition proposes a space of joyful connection and community through music and dance-inspired video works, sculpture, photography and immersive, room-scale installations by women and queer artists from the West Asia diaspora.

On view:
October 24, 2024 – January 12, 2026

The exhibition concludes with the glimmering chaos of the after-party. In Puff Out, :mentalKLINIK (Yasemin Baydar and Birol Demir, a Brussels-based artist duo from Istanbul) unleash a fleet of robotic vacuum cleaners that roam a glitter-covered space, drawing in and redistributing the glitter as they go. These machines animate the room with playful unpredictability. The pair’s additional architectural interventions within the museum extend the spirit of the rave —immersive, collective, and playfully unruly.

Installation view of Rave into the Future: Art in Motion October 24, 2025 – January 12, 2026. Photograph © Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, by Kevin Candland.

The artist list includes Morehshin Allahyari, Sophia al Maria, Farah Al Qasimi, Fatima Al Qadiri, Meriem Bennani, Yasmine Nasser Diaz, Sahar Khoury, :mentalKLINIK, Joe Namy, and Maryam Yousif.

Rave Into the Future: Art in Motion is organized by the Asian Art Museum.
Sustained support: Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang Endowment Fund for Exhibitions and the Kao/Williams Contemporary Art Exhibitions Fund
Major support: The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
Additional support: Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation