Tangent Projects Studio Residency Autumn/Winter 2023
For our Autumn/Winter 2023 residency programme we are very happy to welcome Cristina Reid & D La Her to Tangent Projects studios.
Many thanks to the selection team - Maria Monegro, Sejal Parekh and Jorge Sánchez.
Cristina Reid is a multidisciplinary artist working between video, installation and collage. She has a bachelor's degree in Art History from Syracuse University where she co-curated various exhibitions at the university art galleries. She completed an archival internship at the Uffizi Galleries in Florence, Italy.
Cristina is currently enrolled in an MFA in Artistic Production and Research at the University of Barcelona.
She has recently exhibited video work in Sala Equis (Madrid) and as part of Loop Video Art Festival (Barcelona), as well as participating in group exhibitions at FOC and Galeria Joan Prats (Barcelona).
Her multidisciplinary research-based practice deals with the collection, manipulation and distortion of media, images and information. She explores how images are disseminated, experienced and read through time, and the narratives and interconnections that occur when disparate images are brought into proximity.
Cristina’s art history background influences her practice as she often works from a personal archive of found materials, exploring how decontextualising images highlights the weight and absurdity of how they infiltrate the collective consciousness.
D La Her was born in South Korea. She holds a BFA and MBA degree from France and studied fine art in the state of New York, USA. She currently lives and works in Paris.
While representing scenes of everyday life and festive memories, sometimes nostalgic, she explores the relation between the artist, their work and the spectator. In her creations, moments pass and faces disappear. These blank faces belong to the spectators and constitute a meeting place for the intimate memories of individuals.
Based on the intersection of classical East Asian philosophy and 20th-century French philosophy, D La Her investigates life, emptiness, and relational aesthetics. Her work echoes these reflections, using post-impressionism, American realism, and the seventh art as sources of inspiration.
D La Her’s seventh art educational background shines through how she frames scenes and balances light and tone. The artificial atmosphere of her works is reminiscent of film studios; it structures a narrative that is at once mysterious and dreamlike. Her inspirations come from a life of multiculturalism and multidisciplinarity. Her works do not set any limits: the blank faces of the characters are addressed to everyone, regardless of origin, color, or gender. It is an empty field for reflection, an encounter with others and oneself - to finally fully grasp one's presence.
To coincide with D La Her & Cristina Reid’s exhibition project, Work in Progress, we continued our collaboration with Trio Editorial to produce a zine publication - click here to see Cristina & D La’s zine or visit Tangent Projects to pick up your free printed copy.