Jennifer Tee
Tampan Migration Bird #1
2024
€1060,00
about this work
In Jennifer Tee’s Tampan Tulip works, she creates tampan-inspired tapestries of cut-up tulip petals. Tampans are ceremonial textiles from the Sumatra island in Indonesia that are displayed during important moments such as births or marriages. Both the material used as the motives of these works speak to Tee’s family history, intertwining two recognisable national symbols, as well as to important societal symbols present in the Netherlands and Indonesia.
The bird in this edition could be read as a spiritual motive, signifying freedom, guidance, and a connection to higher realms. It can be seen as a message of hope and protection, and as a subtle spiritual guide or protective house spirit.
The work comes unframed, but can be framed upon order.
The artist chose a reddish-brown box-frame, as pictured.
about Jennifer Tee
Jennifer Tee’s works comprise sculpture, installation, performance, photography, and collages, all with a wide-ranging underlying frame of reference. Of central importance is Tee’s interest in the in-between state of what she calls the soul in limbo. The soul in limbo is restless and alive, and caught in an unnamed place – a conceptual, mental, psychological, and physical space – on the border between the here and the possible. Tee also researches contemporary life, with its cross-cultural identity and narratives, its instability and complexity, and its potential for the loss of identity, language, and kinship with original cultures. In addition, Tee explores various forms of utopian concepts of life and their potential for creating a new and more beautiful and soulful world. With her work, she encourages the contemplation of life’s fragile connections, evoking spiritual realms with active material experimentation.
courtesy of the artist
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