Ascent by Fiona Tan
Sunday 18 November 2018, 6 pm
— 2016
- Artists
- Fiona Tan
- Venues
- Cinemes Girona
- Price
- 6 €
- Language
- English
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LOOP and Casa Asia present Ascent (2016), one of Fiona Tan’s latest feature length films and representative of the artist’s exploration of movement and stillness. Through the collection of a wide selection of still images portraying the mountain from different perspectives and a subtle voice-over, the film recounts of the fictional correspondence between a western female writer and her Japanese deceased partner. 4500 diverse photographs from the past 150 years constitute the basis for this work, which unfolds into a poetic exercise spanning both fiction and documentary and opening up questions on hybrid forms of production and the mingling of disciplines. Fiona Tan (Pekanbaru, Indonesia) is best known for her skilfully crafted video and film installations, in which explorations of memory, time, history and the role of visual images are key. Her installations and photographic works have been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in international venues. She has written and directed to date two feature length films.
* In collaboration with Casa Asia.
Fiona Tan
- Artist, Speaker
1966
The artist and filmmaker, Fiona Tan (1966) lives and works in Amsterdam. Over the past twenty years her work has gained considerable international recognition. As recipient of the artist-in-residence fellowship from the Getty Center, she lived and worked in 2016-17 in Los Angeles. Last year she was awarded the Amsterdam Prize for Art. Her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in international venues. Recent solo exhibitions took place at the Museum für moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Museum de Pont, Tilburg, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK, the National Museum for Art, Osaka, at the MAXXI, Rome and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Fiona Tan represented The Netherlands at the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009). Her work is represented in numerous international public and private collections including the Tate Modern, London, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Neue National Galerie, Berlin and the Guggenheim Museum, New York. To date Tan has written and directed two feature films: History’s Future (2015) and Ascent (2016).
