Artist
Exhibition Dates
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Fatimah Tuggar, Coverfield, 2008, inkjet on vinyl, 71x 109 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.
Fatimah Tuggar, Inna’s Recipe, 1999, inkjet on vinyl, 101 x 152 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.
Fatimah Tuggar, At the School Master’s, 2000, inkjet on vinyl, 109 x 101 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.
Fatimah Tuggar, Broom, 1996, hay broom, electronic sound chip, power button, 60.96 x 5.08 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.
Fatimah Tuggar, Spinner & the Spindle, 1995, inkjet on vinyl, 76 x 50 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.
Fatimah Tuggar, Coverfield, 2008, inkjet on vinyl, 71x 109 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.
Fatimah Tuggar, Inna’s Recipe, 1999, inkjet on vinyl, 101 x 152 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.
Fatimah Tuggar, At the School Master’s, 2000, inkjet on vinyl, 109 x 101 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.
Fatimah Tuggar, Broom, 1996, hay broom, electronic sound chip, power button, 60.96 x 5.08 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.
Fatimah Tuggar, Spinner & the Spindle, 1995, inkjet on vinyl, 76 x 50 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.
Selected
Spinner and the Spindle: Tuning Meaning & Threading Ideas
Opening Reception
Saturday, April 5, 12 – 3 pm
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Spinner and the Spindle: Tuning Meaning & Threading Ideas presents a sampling of computer montages by Fatimah Tuggar from the 1990s and an augmented reality diptych from 2019. The exhibition also features Broom, a sculptural object with electronic embedded sound, demonstrating the artist’s collage and bricolage across her entire body of work.
Interdisciplinary artist Tuggar, a pioneer of digital media, combines her photographs and found images from multiple histories, geographies, and cultures to examine societal nuances closely. She recontextualises, exploring, documenting, and reimagining what connects us and separates us, as well as the spaces within us and around us. In both her computer montages and video collages, meaning is located between the combined elements, with a focus on the internal relationships of the individuals within the image, tempered by the surrounding power structures.
Tuggar combines images, perspectives, characters, contexts, and personas in a provocative and respectful practice of engaging ideas and viewers in an ongoing dialogue. The thematic threads of her visual conversations interconnect the factual and fictional, with the intention of implicating viewers and herself. We are both audiences and agents in things as they have been, global society as it is, and the world as it could be. The images in this show highlight her continuous paradoxical uses of humour, reverence, fragility, and complexity, which are consistent as connecting energies regardless of the medium or methods in which she works.
