Agenda
13.03.2010
S.M.A.K. going GAGA
“reading marathon” with artists who have contributed to GAGARIN
S.M.A.K, Ghent, Belgium
18.06 - 12.07.2010
NETHER LAND
Dutch Culture Center, Shanghai, China
Developed by
Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in the framework of the year-long project Morality
curated by Nicolaus Schafthausen and Monika Szewczyk
24.09 - 13 .11.2010
Soloshow
Eastside projects, Birmingham ,UK
curated by Gavin Wade
History
sept 2009 - jul 2010
Double Dutch
museum HVCCA, Peekshill NYC, U.S.A.
12.09.09 - 29.11.09
> THE KNIGHT'S TOUR
Actuele sculptuur in
De Hallen Haarlem
07.05.09-11.07.09
> TOTEM TODAY
Open Source Amsterdam, international art manifestation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
02.05.09 - 06.06.09
> Complex Interiors
Trance-lucent Concrete
Soloshow Galerie Fons Welters,
The Netherlands
3.04.09 - 16.04.09
> FEMININE AND FORMAL
Triangle France, Marseille, France
Curated by Dorothee Dupuis
> FLATSTATION
ongoing project in the Bijlmer
www.flatstation.nl
23.02.08 – 24.02.08
> PAMFLAT
Intervention Weekend
Performance event
Totem Today
by Jennifer Tee
06.04.08 – 21.04.08
> Inside the mind
a resting place
Carpet by Jennifer Tee & Richard Niessen
Galleria Klerckx, Milan, Italy
02.06.08 – 11.09.08
Transgressing Mind
Prague Triennale 2008
Prague, Czech Republic
Curated by Pilvi Kalhama
Open Source Amsterdam
public space art event
Bijlmer, Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Curated by Helga Lasschuijt
contact
Galerie Fons Welters
Bloemstraat 140
1016 LJ Amsterdam
T (+31) 20 423 30 46
E mail@fonswelters.nl
For specific questions:
mail@jennifertee.nl
About
Jennifer Tee’s (NL, 1973) work shows a few very prominent characteristics. Her videos, sculptures, installations, environments and performances play with mythical elements and create new dialogues that somehow never completely break with older storytelling elements and themes. Lines of thought, inspired by her own life and surrounding, religion, mythology, anthropology, language and travels are brought together in often colourful and layered works of art that are all interconnected, but that are complete in themselves and have their own logic. The elements and objects are used to create new story-like elements among themselves, without simple endings. Various thoughts, symbols and mental dispositions appear simultaneously: the principle of synchronicity. The spaces in the exhibitions are distilled moments of thought, visible worlds that ask to be contemplated upon.
In recent years Jennifer Tee's often-voluminous installations reveal a special interest in
being in an in-between state or what she calls
the soul in Limbo in her performances. She researches intermediate forms of cultures and languages and of various forms of religion, its potential for creating a new, more beautiful and soulful world, but also the loss of identity and kinship with the culture of origin.
In her latest installations the emphasis is on objects and sculptures. Her exhibits sometimes have the character of a situationist-style, temporary, autonomous zone, in which she offers people an opportunity to discover and explore universal fascinations with religion, mythology and play within themselves and others. The artist leads the public into a parallel reality, where a momentary liberation can be sought, a heightened state of consciousness. Tee likes to explore the artistic potential of performances, events or ceremony-like happenings in these works. The typical Jennifer Tee time-space environments always have there own protagonists and rituals, which, although usually inspired by the existing world, are twisted around by the artist to arouse this frame of mind. Real worlds and a world in calling thus flow together in an adventurous setting, in which the act of travelling, both physical and mental, is an important metaphorical binding thread.
Carefully selected natural and industrial materials, such as a palm-tree from Brazil, bamboo from China, handmade ceramics and porcelain, each get their own place and new meanings in a kaleidoscopic assemblage.
She tries to answer questions about the mythology of contemporary human beings, about cultural identity and soul-searching. In her area of research Tee works like a quasi-anthropologist and tries to make connections where there apparently never were any before. She constructs poetic dispositions, between fact and fiction, between present and past.
> Open CV (Doc)
> Open Bibliography (Doc)
Colophon
Website design:
Hilde Meeus &
Janna Meeus
Text editing:
Jean Tee
Photo’s:
TT prologue: Peter Stel en Hein Hage
TT: Peter Stel en Jan-Reinier van Vliet
TF: Gert Jan van Rooij
CF: Gert Jan van Rooij en Peter Stel
SOTB: Peter Stel
CITC:
Gert-Jan van Rooij
DTC:
Edo Kuipers
STTT: Hein Hage
BTHTC: Bob Goedewaagen
UV:
Gert-Jan van Rooij
NSUP:
Peter Cox
TG: Hein Hage
SK: Marco Cops
Beatrix: Hein Hage / Gert-Jan van Rooij
NZW: Marianne Viero & Qiu Yang
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