"I've never seen this person before"
Linder Tar
Artists At Risk
29 June – 29 July 2023
Personal Exhibition
Personal Exhibition
Linden Tar is a sculptor, animator and street artist. In her works, she explores the human psyche, using sculpture as a projective technique. Her field of research is the interaction of the human body and psyche, how the human psyche integrates images of the external world, how life experiences form new structures in the psyche and, ultimately, what constitutes the entity called a human.
“Part of my work resembles an intuitive process. To prevent it from being spoiled by planning and analysis, I use my own construction set – ceramic parts of the human body, objects, fabric, plants, glass, wood. It's like a box of toys in a psychotherapist's office. Trying to give expression to unnamed feelings and sensations, I assemble an object from these pieces. Once the image is born, I analyze and comprehend it, seeing what exactly I have brought forth from within myself. When the understanding comes, I refine the object. I may also embark on similar journeys inward and outward several times until I feel that the object is filled with a certain content that resonates with my psyche.”
Residency project is a series of self-portraits in which the artist explores the permeability of the boundaries of his personality, how events happening in the world affect the psyche of an individual. At the same time, one’s own personality is used here as the most accessible example, which can be observed as closely as possible, when the line between the subject and the researcher is erased.
“This is a series of sculptural self-portraits that explores how my psyche has changed during the two years of war and emigration. In this series, I wanted to tell about the war in Ukraine through the history of my body and psyche. This is a story about what it's like to be a witness to the crimes my country commits on my behalf. In my project, I tried to go through every day of the war day by day, all these terrible events and explore how my body, mind and psyche responded to them. In the end, I wanted to understand what kind of person I have become, every day watching how my native country destroys the peaceful cities of a neighboring country. I explored how feelings of shame, rage and helplessness are reflected in my body, how the psyche builds a protective barrier between the lines of the news and my feelings”
Linden Tar
“Part of my work resembles an intuitive process. To prevent it from being spoiled by planning and analysis, I use my own construction set – ceramic parts of the human body, objects, fabric, plants, glass, wood. It's like a box of toys in a psychotherapist's office. Trying to give expression to unnamed feelings and sensations, I assemble an object from these pieces. Once the image is born, I analyze and comprehend it, seeing what exactly I have brought forth from within myself. When the understanding comes, I refine the object. I may also embark on similar journeys inward and outward several times until I feel that the object is filled with a certain content that resonates with my psyche.”
Residency project is a series of self-portraits in which the artist explores the permeability of the boundaries of his personality, how events happening in the world affect the psyche of an individual. At the same time, one’s own personality is used here as the most accessible example, which can be observed as closely as possible, when the line between the subject and the researcher is erased.
“This is a series of sculptural self-portraits that explores how my psyche has changed during the two years of war and emigration. In this series, I wanted to tell about the war in Ukraine through the history of my body and psyche. This is a story about what it's like to be a witness to the crimes my country commits on my behalf. In my project, I tried to go through every day of the war day by day, all these terrible events and explore how my body, mind and psyche responded to them. In the end, I wanted to understand what kind of person I have become, every day watching how my native country destroys the peaceful cities of a neighboring country. I explored how feelings of shame, rage and helplessness are reflected in my body, how the psyche builds a protective barrier between the lines of the news and my feelings”
Linden Tar
