Cotangent Invited Residency Winter 2023 - Lucía Retamar & J. Boróka Gyenes
Tangent Projects are very excited and happy to announce that this year we are able to offer the Winter Cotangent Invited Residency to two artists. Lucía Retamar will join us again and this time share the studios with J. Boróka Gyenes .
Lucía Retamar will join us for the second half of her Cotangent Residency for 3 weeks from December 18th (2023) to January 8th (2024), her first half was from mid-December 2022 to early January 2023. During her residency, she will continue to work on her Picnic Blanket project, ready for completion during the 3rd edition of Fluchtpunkt/Vanishing Point in January/February 2024.
Lucía is an Argentinian multidisciplinary artist specialising in drawing, with a recent inquiry into textile art. Her work touches on issues related to vulnerability, with an emphasis on the psychological aspects and consequences of anxiety, migration, relationships and attachment. Lucía uses drawing and textiles as a medium in her experimental work and is interested in new methodologies and sociologies of the processes by which images are achieved, such as drawing with eyes closed, embroidery as a form of drawing on fabric, garment making as a way of creating in the body.
She also uses illustration as a medium in her artistic processes, often collaborating with different writers and drawing inspiration from her texts to generate her own interpretations. In addition, she is a fashion designer, so the new textile research has opened up a new field of exploration in an area she is very familiar with, such as fabric and pattern making.
Her work has been exhibited internationally and she currently resides in Spain where she is also studying Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona.
J. Boróka Gyenes is a hungarian visual artist living and working in Barcelona. She holds and MFA from Hungary and studied fine arts and painting in Spain.
Her interest lie in the role of colour and mood, as her technique varies from a childlike nonchalance to detailed precision where usually the narrative tends to unfold on its own, rooted in a strong wave of subjective assosiation. She mainly works with painting and textiles where the composition and the creative process itself is a space subordinated to thought and emotion.
In the complexity of the vivid colours, she is often preoccupied with the everyday tragedies that occur with quiet awkwardness in the immanent space of narrativity. The autonomy of the human individual comes almost simultaneously with its helplessness. She usually relates medium and technique to the things she depicts, rather than working in a single style. She also expresses the non-negligibility of the importance of pleasure and enjoyment relating to the practice.