Unbridled Pillar,
2010, Dyckman Farmhouse Museum, New York
Material: Concrete spacers/ tie- raps

INVADE SPACES
Lecture by Tanja Smeets
Artist

Date: Thursday November 17 2011
Time: 18:30 hrs
Location: Wijnhaven 61, Rotterdam
(this is the back entrance of the Willem de Kooning Academy-building)

The lecture will take place in studio W.1.145
Admission: free

In the work of Tanja Smeets intangible, furtive growth processes play a prominent role. Her amorphous sculptures nestle in places where they don’t belong. She has a distinct preference for industrial materials or goods from daily life: Lentils, dried beans, polystyrene balls with a sand coating, foam strings, concrete spacers, tied up plastic wire, strings of lycra.

Under Tanja Smeets hands these materials change into sculptures that invade spaces like alien creatures. Developing hyperorganic shapes that can ooze through walls, both indoors and outdoors, infiltrating and merging with the identity of the architecture, friendly structures that take over a building in a secretive way. The sculptures infiltrate the everyday environment to then get interlaced with it. This creates a strange tension; the sculpture obtains an almost natural place despite its unbridled, disturbing growth process. As if it has always been there.

“Untitled”
2009 , Commission Woerden Municipal Council
Materials : Ceramics and the bricks that are used in the wall.
Dimensions: Widht: 1: 1.60 meters/ Height: 65 centimeters