Tine Guns
°1983, Aalst (BE) — lives and works in Ghent (BE)
Tine Guns uses media such as photography, film, and photo-books to explore perception, memory, and the fragmented notion of time in the human experience. Her work resists straightforward narratives, often unfolding as visual essays or atmospheric sequences that evoke more than they explain. She challenges the linearity of cinematic structure, weaving fragmentary visual narratives and perceptual experiments that bring viewers into a state of in-betweenness — between fact and fiction, stillness and movement, presence and absence.
Trained as a graphic designer, Guns brings a meticulous sensitivity to image, rhythm, and form. This background is especially evident in her photobooks, where she treats the turning of a page much like the cut in a film — with careful attention to pacing, composition, and silence. In both film and photography, she uses editing not only as a technical tool but as a conceptual gesture, layering visuals to explore how meaning forms and dissolves over time.
Whenever in Doubt, 2024
Rocambolesco, 2019
Storm Before The Silence, 2020
Watching the Black between the Stars, 2021
After the flood
Rocambolesco, 2019
Rocambolesco, 2019
At the heart of her practice lies a deep engagement with memory — how it flickers, fades, and reappears in personal and collective experience. Rather than offering fixed interpretations, her work invites a slower kind of looking and listening. Whether through voice-over, archival images, or the rhythm of still frames, Guns creates a space where viewers are encouraged to reflect, drift, and inhabit uncertainty. Her work doesn’t offer answers, but instead opens up poetic encounters with time and perception.
Tine Guns has exhibited in Cinematek/BOZAR Brussels, Netwerk Aalst, Argos, Brussels; and Casino Luxembourg. Her films were screened at festivals like Jean Rouch Festival in Paris and biennials like Ostrale in Dresden. Her photos were selected for Voies Off in Arles and Antwerp Photo.
Tine Guns is represented by the following gallery;
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You can also discover more of Tine Guns’ work on her own website.
