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News – Fiona Tan

  • FIONA TAN: RISE AND FALL

    FIONA TAN: RISE AND FALL

    Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
    8 May - 6 September 2010

    This exhibition examines the concerns at the heart of Tan’s practice which is underpinned by a preoccupation with memory and history. Tan’s recent photographic works and video pieces, such as _Rise and Fall_ (2009), _Provenanc_e (2008) or _A Lapse of Memory_ (2007), revolve as much around issues of identity and belonging as around remembering and forgetting.

    The exhibition will travel to the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington D.C. and the Galerie de l’UQAM in Montréal.

  • FIONA TAN: RISE AND FALL

    FIONA TAN: RISE AND FALL

    Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
    30 January - 18 April 2010

    This exhibition, the first comprehensive survey of Tan’s work in Switzerland, examines the concerns at the heart of her practice which is underpinned by a preoccupation with memory and history. Tan’s recent photographic works and video pieces, such as Rise and Fall (2009), Provenance (2008) or A Lapse of Memory (2007), revolve as much around issues of identity and belonging as around remembering and forgetting.

    The exhibition Rise and Fall was initiated by the Vancouver Art Gallery. Following its presentation at the Aargauer Kunsthaus the exhibition will travel to the Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada, the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington D.C. and the Galerie de l’UQAM in Montréal.

  • FIONA TAN AT THE VENICE BIENNALE

    FIONA TAN AT THE VENICE BIENNALE

    Frith Street Gallery is pleased to announce that Fiona Tan has been chosen by the Mondriaan Foundation as the Dutch representative at the 53rd Venice Biennale 7th June to 22nd November 2009.

    “A professional foreigner,” is how Fiona Tan describes herself, “whose identity is defined by that which I am not.” As an artist she is able to make her individual experiences relevant to others: Through professional analysis and poetic translation of her observations she creates images which become symbols of the fading memory of a fast-changing world. Working with photography, video and film her installations engage in an active dialogue with the architectural space.

    Tan is currently working on a new audio-visual installation especially for the presentation in Venice which will offer an alternation of dark and light spaces in the Rietveld Pavilion.

    Find out more at “Fiona Tan’s Venice website”:http://www.fionatanvenice.nl

  • FIONA TAN: PROSPECT 1, NEW ORLEANS BIENNIAL

    FIONA TAN: PROSPECT 1, NEW ORLEANS BIENNIAL

    1 November 2008 - 18 January 2009

    Prospect.1 New Orleans [P.1] will be the largest biennial of international contemporary art ever organized in the United States. Fiona Tan’s contribution Island explores issues such as how different layers of time and place can converge in the present and in one’s memory - how one can be present in one place and, at the same time, in one’s memory, be present in another place. What images of him- or herself does the viewer encounter in the film and in the mirrors?  Fiona Tan describes this work as a retreat slightly away from everyday life.

  • FIONA TAN: PROVENANCE

    FIONA TAN: PROVENANCE

    Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
    27 August - 19 October 2008

    Artist Fiona Tan (b. 1966) was born in Indonesia and grew up in Australia. She has lived and worked in Amsterdam since 1988. For the Rijksmuseum she made the installation Provenance.

    bq. “For this commission I looked at the 17th-century portraits in the Rijksmuseum collection. I find the most interesting paintings of this period are portraits in which the subjects are painted in a completely ordinary, honest and plain way. I immersed myself in their history, and what I noticed was how tangible the past is in a city like Amsterdam: the buildings, the street names, even the names and appearance of friends.

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