Exhibition
Tiffanie Delune: The Geography of Feelings
3 Oct-20 Dec 2024
Gallery 1957
London SW7 5EW
Overview
French Belgo-Congolese artist Tiffanie Delune (b.1988) debuts her first exhibition at Gallery 1957 London, presenting new paintings and textiles entitled The Geography of Feelings. Accompanied by a specially commissioned text by Jennifer Higgie who visited Delune at her new studio in Montpellier, France over the summer.
Recently moving her studio from Lisbon, back to France, the artist’s continuous source of inspiration has to be photographs and drawings of medical plants, and trees taken from her travels in DR Congo. Delune’s commitment to experimentation continues as she weaves dreams and fantasies to create a utopian world. Inspired by spirituality, geometry, anatomy, animism and astrology–the artist presents spiritual maps on canvas and large-scale dreamscapes on linen.
Alongside a noticeable shift to stronger colours in this body of work, Delune uses acrylic, oil pastels, spray paint, threads, and paper, to calibrate the complex with the ethereal, accenting her creations with pencils and glitter. Finding equilibrium between darkness and depth, intellect and playfulness, she is interested in giving life and spirit to each aspect of the natural world.
Giving an audible dimension to The Geography of Feelings, Delune has collaborated with composer Guilhem Tamisier (Bazartropicando) to create two musical compositions (19 minutes each). Delune invites the audience to experience a soundscape infused with fragments and voices of her travels. Each track is a collection of musical stories which all together, act as a sonic expression of the shapes, colours and motions conveyed in the paintings.
This will be Delune’s second exhibition with Gallery 1957 following her residency and debut show with Gallery 1957 Accra in early 2023, and her solo presentation of paintings at Art Basel Miami Beach 2023.
Download the Press Release to read the Critical Text by Jennifer Higgie.
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