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Art and
philosophy are concerned with bringing something to consciousness in
a way that enables insight into the interdependence of us and
reality.
Tine Wilde elaborates on the composition of her multilayered and
interdisciplinary work, describing the large-scale projects as
'InstallationPackage': a collection of installations, photography,
performance, and text that investigate a single concept from various
perspectives. For example, in 'Package Rhine' she focused for over
two years on the concept of 'Life Quality', selecting Schaffhausen,
Strasbourg, Cologne, and Rotterdam as locations to work for some
time. Similarly, 'Package Do not Erase' examined the concept of
'Meaning'. The completion of a package can take several years,
considering both the outcomes and the processes involved.
Installations and performances require thorough documentation, and
photography has therefore always been consequential. Over time, it
has become an even more important medium in its own right. The
advent of digital photography enables the division, remodelling, and
repetition of photographic material with great freedom in unexpected
ways and the layering of components not into new photographs, but
into pictureworks. These pictureworks reflect the energy of an
unknown and unseen world in which the camera functions as a
concentrated point of consciousness attempting to locate the unknown
through a reciprocal poetic resonance between the explicate
structures of the ordinary world and the implicate processes of the
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human soul.
In the dynamics between the explicate and the implicate, just as
between seeing and thinking, pictureworks, whether presented as a
choice sequence or an installation, are not a point of view, but a
field of perception and cognition that seeks to connect us with the
deeper levels of life: the profound, unanswerable questions and
mysteries. From this perspective, photography is understood as a
reflective and analytic 'philosophical' medium. Transformed into
art, these pictureworks seek to evoke the viewer's infinite range of
subtle feelings.
Her artistic output has been exhibited in galleries and institutions
both domestically and internationally, including ACB Strasbourg,
DAAD gallery Berlin, Frauen Museum Bonn, Arti et Amicitiae
Amsterdam, and many others. In addition, she heightened the relation
between language and image in performance Language and her
Tighty-Whities; investigated the question what happens to a
human being when she is totally isolated from her natural and
cultural environment and left to her own resources in a two-week
stay at the fallout shelter of Dalfsen; received international
recognition for her performance in Cologne, where she crossed the
Rhine River wrapped in bandages; and put herself up for sale amid
34,000 day-trippers at the Rhine Falls near Schaffhausen. Work is
included in various museological collections such as MoMA New York,
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and Tate Modern London.
Tine Wilde occasionally delivers masterclasses and public lectures
related to the projects.
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