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Art and
philosophy are about bringing something to consciousness in such a
way that they enable us to gain insight into the interdependence of
human beings and reality. After a study in Fine Art at AKI Academy
of Art & Design in Enschede, Tine Wilde read philosophy at the
University of Amsterdam. She holds a PhD for merging philosophical
insights into her works of art. Elaborating on the ways in which she
composes her multilayered and interdisciplinary work, she labeled
the large-scale projects 'InstallationPackage': a cluster of
installations, performance, photography, and text in which the same
concept is investigated from various points of view. For instance,
in package Rhine she focussed for more than two years on the
concept of 'Life Quality', choosing Schaffhausen, Strasbourg,
Cologne and Rotterdam to work for some time. Or the concept of
'Meaning' which was examined in package Do not Erase.
It may take several years to complete a package, considering not
only the results, but also the processes involved.
The discovery of digital photography allows her to split, remodel
and repeat photographic material with great freedom in unexpected
ways and layer the 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, trying to locate the unknown in a reciprocal
poetic resonance between the explicate structures of the ordinary
world and the implicate processes of the human soul. In the dynamics
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between the
seeing and the thinking, pictureworks, whether they are presented as
a choice sequence or an installation, are not a point of view, but a
field of perception and cognition that tries to connect us with the
deeper levels of life: the big unanswerable questions, the
mysteries. From this, then, photography is understood as a
reflective and analytic 'philosophical' medium. Transformed into
art, the pictureworks seek to touch upon the viewer's infinite
number of subtle feelings.
Her artistic output has been on view in galleries and institutions
both at home and abroad, including ACB Strasbourg, DAAD gallery
Berlin, FrauenMuseum 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. In 2011 she produced permanent photo installation
Corrido[o]r - Empty Space at the Oude Turfmarkt for the
University of Amsterdam. Work is included in various museological
collections such as MoMA New York, Allard Pierson Museum Amsterdam,
and Tate Modern London.
Related to the package projects, she regularly delivers
Masterclasses and public lectures.
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