Fiona Tan was an invited artist at the Museum Ludwig Cologne as part of the first edition of the Artist Meets Archive programme.
Her video projections, along with her audio and sculptural works, reflect questions concerning the identity of humankind and its individual and collective memory. The boundaries between autobiographical and fictional narrative blur when, in Tan’s images and film installations, personal identity and cultural imprinting combine to form one unit. The archive as time capsule plays a central role for her artistic research and classification strategies at the same time.
What is an archive? Possibly a source of inspiration and a place of discovery. Probably a cause of some puzzlement. Hopefully a reason for feelings and expressions of wonder.
Fiona Tan
In her videos, photographs and installations Fiona Tan deals repeatedly with humankind and with the question of identity, biography, documentation and fiction. The Photographic Collection at Museum Ludwig keeps a host of images of people from everywhere in the world – famous, unknown, by famous and anonymous photographers. That’s why we are extremely excited about the connections, questions and stories that Tan is no doubt going to peel out of the miscellaneous material.
Dr. Miriam Halwani, Curator The Photography Collection, Museum Ludwig
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Participants
The Artist Meets Archive programme invites international artists to collaborate with the Cologne Archives & Collections. Within the framework of a residency, they can immerse themselves in the city's photographic holdings and develop an exhibition project for the Photoszene Festival. In the first two editions of Artist Meets Archive, eleven artists were able to participate and present their projects in Cologne.