Svenja Tiger
NUME
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𝙾𝙿𝙴𝙽𝙸𝙽𝙶: apr 2 || saturday | 4pm-8pm
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𝙳𝙰𝙸𝙻𝚈: tuesday to saturday | 3pm-7pm
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𝙸𝙽𝚃𝙴𝚁𝙵𝙻𝚄𝙴𝙽𝙲𝙸𝙴𝚂: apr 22 || friday | 4pm-6pm
Booking: Free entrance
NUME is an installation born from the fascination with the night sky, the stars, the moon and all the strange imagery of the cosmos. Visually, it follows the first steps of a traveler towards the sun inside his spacesuit, which allows him to wander in the area of mysteries. A space that we imagine full of objects, planets, soils, seas and mountains. The body of a spaceman is visualized, he is free to have gender, to be political or ethical, to have morals and faith. Just put on your helmet and go travel, see and dream. This is the image, in which lies the foundation for the contextual and visual concept of this piece: the astronaut as a poet. In this hypothetical journey, the paradoxes of the desire to discover space and to fantasize with its consequent designation and occupation are addressed. The astronaut becomes a metaphor for our desires and fears, while exploring he flees. A being that never arrives because it never leaves, trapped in a melancholy of being from but no longer belonging to the Earth. Someone who wears a suit that becomes another body. Through his vision, we begin to familiarize ourselves with these cosmic objects and at the same time feel an expansion of the fragile notion of what nature really is.
SVENJA TIGER
Visual artist, costume designer and performer. In her artistic practice, she explores topics related to personal and cultural mythology, fictional narratives, science fiction, among others. She researches on how our private narratives are deeply rooted in ancient storytelling and how, conversely, they have the ability to tell us intimate stories about ourselves. Instinctively, she links her researches around the places she visits, bonding with the hidden structures, creatures, and phenomens existing in those.
It culminates in a continous exploration of existence and life through how both are interacting with the invisible forces that connect them to their respective environments and realities. She expresses herself through installations, photography, drawing and performances. However, her main medium is the material world of textiles, through which she is able to reinterpret the meaning of our body and all things attached in our sorrounding. The transformation and reuse of textiles is a tool to reflect on social and ecological issues. Also in collaborations with other artists and musicians she finds an indispensable source of experimentation and a place of insatiable challenge. Among others, she colaborated with Francisco Babo, Irina Pereira, Polliana Dalla Barba, José Oliveira, Maria Miguel and Kauê Gindri.