Tiana Hemlock–Yensen

Residency programme: May 2018 – June 2018

May 2018

Connecting, correlating, reconfiguring, retelling.

Washing the bones, my bones, meditating and caring for the broken parts, invoking imaginary futures and presents in which we grow from the limitations.

This project seeks for the remembered and forgotten materials. It finds objects connected and made precious through the act of care and attention. With an almost ritual work consisting of collecting and cleaning bones, Tiana’s work reflects on the hidden things that contains us, and on the strength and fragility of the fragmented.
She is curious about how bodies, ideas, stories and lives are connected and interconnected in obvious and less subtle ways.
She is currently working by developing layers, generating a world in which we can exist in multiple spaces/times at the same time. She rises questions about what was remembered, what was left, what stays in the body and what stays when there is no body anymore.

June 2018

What is it to not move? To study movement? To fragment oneself? To already be fragmented? How does seeing something or imagining it effect the neural pathways and the ideas of what is and isn’t possible?

You have been working steadily with imaging yourself in movement and in spaces. Imagining being healthy, being alien, being dead, being pieces, being whole, being other, being multiple, being object, flesh, bones, form, person.

You go living and dying between virtual and actual spaces. Capturing, recapturing and fragmenting our images. The virtuosity is in imagination, in the effect that the virtual spaces open up for becoming in directions otherwise uncharted.

You are a fragment, you are a fragment of a fragment. you are a fragment of a fragment of something you cannot even see.

This work looks at dis and re locating oneself. Catching glimpses and trying on images as a way of moving, of healing, of dancing.