Tique

Tique is a publication for contemporary art https://www.tique.art

Tique is a platform for contemporary art based in Belgium and the Netherlands, with an exhibition space and a printed and online magazine.

05/08/2024

I explore the world through images, delving beneath surfaces to uncover hidden depths. My work embraces ambiguity, questioning binary views and embracing paradoxes. Drawing from my background in software engineering, I dismantle and reassemble images like pieces of code, creating collages that transcend their origins. This process extends beyond photography into various media, aiming to challenge traditional boundaries and invite diverse perspectives through co-existing viewpoints. I seek to spark a dialogue between the image and the viewer and explore how images interact with our individual perceptions, fostering a shared understanding of our unique and collective perspectives.

Tique asks six questions to an artist about their work and inspiration.
This week: Dora Lionstone

Read the interview here: https://buff.ly/3A91e71

28/07/2024

My artistic practice is akin to meditation, delving into my inner self to uncover previously unnoticed emotions, memories, and impressions, visualizing them. Throughout this process, I both ventilate emotions and seek companions who can empathize with my images. The reassurance and comfort I feel come when I realize that my emotions are not strange but universally relatable. To achieve this, I often jot down dreams, thoughts, and imaginings.

Tique asks six questions to an artist about their work and inspiration.
This week: Soyo

Read the interview here: https://buff.ly/4feuyZE

21/07/2024

"I try to create constructed situations and installations, interventions in public and gallery space, as well as studio-made objects and videos. I use both physically present material of "here and now" and moving image of "there and then". My artworks can be described as "spatial situations" realized mostly through action, video, installation and object. I use an intermedia approach with a strong emphasis on plastic or spatial forms. However, rather than creating a fixed sculptural result, I set specific conditions for a situation to take place. I usually create apparatuses that reveal different or parallel images or set up constructed frameworks for a new specific activity. In this way, I act as both author and observer of my works at the same time."

Tique asks six questions to an artist about their work and inspiration.
This week: Tomáš Moravec

Read the interview here: https://buff.ly/46goU5g

19/07/2024

Curated by Sebastián Quevedo Ramírez and hosted by Air the Paris, the group exhibition ‘Une mer de petites flammes’ focuses on questions related to Latin American presence and artistic communities in Paris. Eduardo Galeano’s ‘Book of embraces’ from 1989 serves as a literary starting point to help unravel personal narratives and an interpersonal network built on sentiments.

Now on Tique: Une mer de petites flammes

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17/07/2024

Even when I think my interest in a research question is directed toward other areas, I come across stories concerning humans' belonging to the animal world. I find that reflection around this relationship is fundamental to my thinking about humanity. As we experienced in Ancient Greece and even earlier in prehistoric caves: what are we doing here? What is our role as a species?

Tique asks six questions to an artist about their work and inspiration.
This week: Francesca Todde

Read the interview here: https://buff.ly/3S9iUoU

14/07/2024

When I take a photograph, It feels like I am searching for another place, while I am looking into where I am looking at. Taking photographs for me is a way to go between reality and a fantasy freely.

Tique asks six questions to an artist about their work and inspiration.
This week: Kanade Hamamoto

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12/07/2024

The exhibition ‘Flawless Waltz’ at Soy Capitán, Berlin, brings together a diverse collection of contemporary artworks that explore themes of identity, media, and societal norms through various mediums. The exhibition features works encompassing photography, textile, painting, video, sculpture, and kinetic art, inviting viewers to reflect on the intersections of image, material, and meaning in contemporary life. From the transformation of a dress into a multifaceted installation, to the critical examination of mass media’s influence, and the exploration of corporeality and emotion through mechanical movement, Flawless Waltz offers a profound insight into the dynamic interplay between art and society.

With works by Shahin Afrassiabi, Eli Cortiñas, Matthias Dornfeld, Klara Hobza, Talisa Lallai, Paloma Proudfoot, Benja Sachau, Reinhard Voigt, Grace Weaver, Caroline Wong, and Rachel Youn.

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04/07/2024

Alfredo Aceto’s exhibition Full Moon Sergio at CIRCUIT confronts narratives. For example, the customs of the Neolithic civilisation of the Cucuteni-Trypillia are set against the myth of the super-entrepreneur embodied by Sergio Marcionne. Sergio was an Italian-Canadian businessman living in Switzerland. He is best known for having led the Fiat Chrysler Automobiles merger. Alfredo Aceto shows an ambiguous interest in the figure of the businessman, summoned up in the title of the exhibition Full Moon Sergio, sounding like an invocation.

Now on Tique: Alfredo Aceto – Full Moon Sergio

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01/07/2024

OPEN CALL: ARTISTIC RESEARCH PROJECTS

Do you have an ongoing or finished artistic research project?

Tique is developing a new interview series on artistic research projects, and we invite you to introduce your project to us!

If you would like to share more info on your research project, see link in bio.

28/06/2024

For her series of photographs that began with the exhibition 'Frantic' (2016-2022), Joanna Piotrowska invited people to construct small shelters to inhabit within their own domestic walls, built from objects at hand, such as chairs, tables, blankets, and curtains. The outcome of the project is a gallery of portraits of these shelter dwellers, posing within their precarious inhabitable assemblages—cozy places to isolate themselves from the world, to hide—that are reminiscent of huts built for play by children.

In the exhibition 'Implicit Lives', a similar intimate dimension, achieved with elements of domestic furniture, triggers a journey through time. Black-and-white photographs depicting men and (more often) women, caught in mutual, enigmatic, and suspended gestures, analogous to the 'Frowst' series (2013-2014), are here embedded in a domestic landscape.

Now on Tique: Joanna Piotrowska – Implicit Lives

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23/06/2024

"I’m fascinated with how we create meaning, and much of my work responds to that thematic in different ways; through belief, dreams, fantasy, subjectivity, communication, memory.
I’m also interested in the medium of photography itself. I’ve worked in different spaces across photography - as an editorial photographer, as an archivist, as a commissioning picture editor, as a producer for documentary/humanitarian photography, as a curator - and thus each of these roles or encounters has lead to thinking about the different ways in which images operate in the world - the promise and expectation of photographs versus the limitations and challenges of the medium."

Tique asks six questions to an artist about their work and inspiration.
This week: Emily Graham

Read the interview here: https://buff.ly/3KUxFbd

21/06/2024

Louidgi Beltrame’s solo show hosted by La Loge in Brussels presents works inspired by his research conducted in Peru, starting in 2012. Within the framework of the exhibition, the Paris-based artist delves into the practice of clandestine grave diggers, also known as huaqueros.

Now on Tique: Louidgi Beltrame – La huaca llora

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19/06/2024

"My practice is rooted in q***rness. In particular, I’m interested in the representation and documentation of q***r narratives. I often employ the medium of photography, and when I’m shooting I try to capture moments of tenderness with my subjects. In doing this, I hope to showcase elements of q***r culture that are often disregarded. To me, these moments of stillness show how powerful and defiant q***r people are by simply existing. There is a certain sense of intimacy at play in my practice, and I like to think of my photographs as conversations between myself and the person in front of the lens."

Tique asks six questions to an artist about their work and inspiration.
This week: Dónal Talbot

Read the interview here: https://buff.ly/3KRoiJs

16/06/2024

How do you describe your own art practice?
"Humanist, with a central importance given to the object made. We are given a form of time travel in making artworks, with small, strange pieces of ourselves in existence beyond our own lives. It’s a magic, which through all kinds of societies and times, has somehow survived. So that must mean something for our shared humanity.
In the everyday, depending on the person I might just say: ‘something between painting and sculpture’. I would describe it as ‘earnest’ in certain company. Often I wouldn’t want to describe it at all, through embarrassment, shyness, disgust or just bloody-mindedness."

Tique asks six questions to an artist about their work and inspiration.
This week: Henrik Potter

Read the interview here: https://buff.ly/3VIf1JL

14/06/2024

'Thread Song' is a solo exhibition by photographer Jenna Westra at Schwarz Contemporary, Berlin. Describing herself as working ‘more like a painter’, Jenna Westra uses multi-layered images and precise arrangements of forms that seem more closely connected to the stability of painting than to the unpredictability of photography. By borrowing from a variety of media, Westra traverses boundaries and generates painterly compositions with sculptural solidity and photographic depth.

Now on Tique: Jenna Westra – Thread Song

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12/06/2024

"My first experience with art was watching cartoons and anime as a child. In my teenage years, my art teacher, Mr. Jobson, exposed me to artists such as Meleko Mokgosi, David Goldblatt and Jane Alexander. The first time I can say I saw a large contemporary art exhibition was in my first year of university in Cape Town, which was a Zander Blom exhibition."

Tique asks six questions to an artist about their work and inspiration.
This week: Thero Makepe

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10/06/2024

Ella Littwitz investigates political, social, and cultural landscapes by appropriating and shifting specific elements connected to the land. Pivotal to her practice is the constant desire of humans to create sovereign ideologies by drawing limits, borders, and frontiers, sometimes even controlling nature and moving soil.

Now on Tique: Ella Littwitz

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09/06/2024

"I am an architect during the day and an artist by nigh. Art introduces new ideas to explore in architecture and vice versa. I see Architecture as being a little bit of everything and Art as a vehicle to further study these unlimited topics. In architecture my thinking process can be very rational, and while set limitations help in framing a project it can also be restrictive. Art allows me to be more experimental, and it is this freedom and fluidity that reinforce the rational thinking."

Tique asks six questions to an artist about their work and inspiration.
This week: Julie Puaux

Read the interview here: https://buff.ly/4aU5TpR

07/06/2024

'Nineteen Works' is a solo exhibition by Daniel Gustav Cramer at SpazioA, presenting an installation of sculptures, photographs, and text works. His works are created as an ongoing research, like a travel diary that attempts to describe the human condition, they draw their imagery from collective experiences and shared memories.

Now on Tique: Daniel Gustav Cramer – Nineteen Works

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05/06/2024

"My focus is on the relations that connect artifacts and commodities to people, and their power to affect behaviours, dreams, and expectations. I am attracted to both to the human capacity to create things, beautiful objects that reflect human feelings and aspirations, and the inanimate, autonomous power inside them. My interest also lies in exploring grey areas of new technologies, employing them in a different way from which they have been conceived."

Tique asks six questions to an artist about their work and inspiration.
This week: Claudia Petraroli

Read the interview here: https://buff.ly/4c4uE3N

03/06/2024

David Jablonowski (b. 1982) investigates the evolution of technology, its relationship to contemporary forms of communication, and its influence on cultural transmission. He uses objects, materials, and aesthetic references to the process of commodification in the digital age to explore the sculptural value of the language of technology.

Now on Tique: David Jablonowski

Read more: https://www.tique.art/features/david-jablonowski

02/06/2024

"My work tries to find humour in the blurred line between fact and fiction. In my practice, I often try to question the unreliability of knowledge and collective memory. How do the cultural products a person consumes inform their worldview? How much of what we know is propped up by poorly-remembered facts, uninformed stories, and works of fiction?"

Tique asks six questions to an artist about their work and inspiration.
This week: Elinor O’Donovan

Read more: https://www.tique.art/interviews/six-questions/elinor-odonovan

01/06/2024

COSAR gallery presents two solo exhibitions simultaneously:
- ‘Do I Know What It Is, From Which None Can Escape’ by Marge Monko brings together a series of photographs depicting lost gloves on the streets of Tallinn, and the found photos of human hands.
- ‘Crystal Grid’ is a series of photo collages by Paul Kuimet that combines fragments of plants photographed in various botanical gardens around the world on a single surface.

Now on Tique: Marge Monko & Paul Kuimet at COSAR gallery

Read more: https://www.tique.art/exhibitions/marge-monko-paul-kuimet-at-cosar-gallery

29/05/2024

"There is a rich artistic tradition in Persian art consisting of flowers that are connected to each other by curving stems. These motifs are called Eslimi and Khataei. They were widely used in Persian miniature painting, architecture, tiles, crafts, and fabric. I make sculptures looking at the historic Eslimi and Khataei motifs from a femme viewpoint. My sculptures evoke a range of femme bodily forms with their sensual curves and the skin-like character of my papier-mâché. I reverse the two-dimensional traditions of these historic patterns into a three-dimensional space. Through the bodies I make, I speak of personal and collective experiences and quests."

Tique asks six questions to an artist about their work and inspiration.
This week: Anahita Bagheri

Read more: https://www.tique.art/interviews/six-questions/anahita-bagheri

27/05/2024

The key issue in Kilian Rüthemann’s work is the space around. He usually plans and realizes his works on site, which allows him to react to the specific architectural situation, inside or in public space – to the structure of the rooms, windows, walls, and floors, as well as to the spatial tensions and interstices.

Now on Tique: Kilian Rüthemann

Read more: https://www.tique.art/features/kilian-ruthemann

26/05/2024

"The central theme of my work is identity, more precisely the quest for the "self". It's an important subject for me, as I'm of Chadian and French origin, having grown up in Dakar before moving to Paris. My work deals with the phenomenon of acculturation, the process by which an individual from another country adapts, abandoning his or her own cultural elements. What interests me is this process of transition: the loss of landmarks, the abandonment of one’s identity, and finally the return to oneself. This complicated path finally allows one to be. I've chosen to approach it in my work through the idea of deconstruction and then reconstruction, a journey in fact."

Tique asks six questions to an artist about their work and inspiration.
This week: Haoua Habré

Read more: https://www.tique.art/interviews/six-questions/haoua-habre

25/05/2024

For her solo project at P/////AKT Nora Aurrekoetxea Etxebarria (Bilbao, 1989) is presenting an experimentation with the material and formal properties of airbeds, reflecting on the temporality of the domestic object and the choreography implicated in its usage. This choreography also extends to the bodies that interface with the object, relating to the ephemeral shape that a body assumes in relationship with the furniture that hosts it.

Now on Tique: Nora Aurrekoetxea Etxebarria – I am a body in a body of air

Read more: https://www.tique.art/exhibitions/nora-aurrekoetxea-etxebarria-i-am-a-body-in-a-body-of-air

22/05/2024

"I was brought up in a family of intellectuals, so art has always had a central part in our lives. From a young age I would go to Museums very often and regularly, had subscriptions to art magazines meant for kids (they are fantastic) and was involved all through my school years in several creative activities. I have been very privileged to have this amount of culture hand out to me in such varied and beautiful ways, and it’s definitely had an impact on my perception of things and the way I work and think today."

Tique asks six questions to an artist about their work and inspiration.
This week: Camille Lévêque

Read more: https://www.tique.art/interviews/six-questions/camille-leveque

20/05/2024

"The snake sings backwards" is a solo exhibition by Astrid Terrazas at Lodos Gallery. Working in an illustrative, highly detailed style and often adorning her canvases with talismans, charms, and threadwork, Terrazas’ multimedia paintings resemble a visual dream diary full of transient figures, archaic symbols, and illogical narratives. Wielding a singular visual language which merges dreamscapes, Mexican ancestral folklore, lived experiences, and unearthly transfigurations, Terrazas’s recurring motifs function as artifacts of protection and evoke universal metaphors of transformation and healing.

Now on Tique: Astrid Terrazas – The snake sings backwards

Read more: https://www.tique.art/exhibitions/astrid-terrazas-the-snake-sings-backwards

19/05/2024

"Sometimes I imagine my works as a necklace, encircling and taming the neck. A kind of chopper with a small diamond. Think of it as a treasure for festivals and special occasions, not for the everyday. It can easily choke you. They say that you can't give chains as a gift. This is nonsense."

Tique asks six questions to an artist about their work and inspiration.
This week: Nikolay Karabinovych

Read more: https://www.tique.art/interviews/six-questions/nikolay-karabinovych

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