|past artist statements|
statement 2012/13
The nature of our processing information combined with our knowledge of the history of representation is bound to influence our making sense of a given (visual) situation. Information transforms into ‘story’. In an attempt to initiate liminal visual situations, images, which carry subtle interventions of different kinds, allow to disturb and consequently prolong their immediate reading or processing. Uncertainty is evoked and questions might arise about what we see and how we see, leaving an open space to navigate and fill up with new meaning.
statement 2011/12
What happens when being confronted with the unexpected, with events that create high levels of uncertainty, sometimes also called ‘states of crisis’?
In my past and current work I explore phenomena such as fragility, dis- or interruption, failure, transformation, liminality and loss within a visual art context. In this context liminal events refer to in-between situations and conditions that are characterized by the dislocation of established structures, the reversal or undermining of hierarchies, and uncertainty regarding the continuity of tradition and future outcomes. In playful and subtle ways periods of scrutiny are invoked. Central values and axioms are questioned which leads to an instant where normal limits to thought, self-understanding, and behavior are questioned and eventually undone. In such situations, the very structure of the familiar or known is temporarily suspended and reality or our perception of it is called into question.
What happens when being confronted with the unexpected, with events that create high levels of uncertainty, sometimes also called ‘states of crisis’?
In my past and current work I explore phenomena such as fragility, dis- or interruption, failure, transformation, liminality and loss within a visual art context. In this context liminal events refer to in-between situations and conditions that are characterized by the dislocation of established structures, the reversal or undermining of hierarchies, and uncertainty regarding the continuity of tradition and future outcomes. In playful and subtle ways periods of scrutiny are invoked. Central values and axioms are questioned which leads to an instant where normal limits to thought, self-understanding, and behavior are questioned and eventually undone. In such situations, the very structure of the familiar or known is temporarily suspended and reality or our perception of it is called into question.
Tina Hopp, artist (2011)
It’s about the unspecific, about time and pace, a slowing down, a may-be, about lines straight and wiggly, sharp and fading, a fine line...like that between risk and opportunity, a breathing space, the imagination, pockets of silence, it’s more about asking than answering, about looking and listening, about play, non-sense, it’s about you, about me, about the in-between...
Can you put a finger on it? Name it? Not quite?
I can’t either. That’s ok. (pto/please click)
It’s about the unspecific, about time and pace, a slowing down, a may-be, about lines straight and wiggly, sharp and fading, a fine line...like that between risk and opportunity, a breathing space, the imagination, pockets of silence, it’s more about asking than answering, about looking and listening, about play, non-sense, it’s about you, about me, about the in-between...
Can you put a finger on it? Name it? Not quite?
I can’t either. That’s ok. (pto/please click)
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2010
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