For Swab Art Fair, Tangent Projects are presenting works by 3 artists - Lizette Nin, Katy B Plummer and Isola Tong. Their works evaluate our enmeshed historical contexts and, in doing so, present to us the many possibilities (and importances) of transformation.
You will find us in booth S9.
Lizette Nin is a Dominican visual artist currently based in Barcelona. She works primarily with photography and alternative forms of printing. Her work revolves around autobiographical aspects of her Afro-descendant roots. Through her art she aims to give visibility to collectives and social struggles forgotten by the mainstream.
Katy B Plummer is a multimedia artist based in Sydney. She makes work about the phenomenology of politics and the politics of spirituality. She juxtaposes cinematic storytelling with anachronistic domestic textile practices and the camp aesthetics of high school theatre. Her work announces that history is a haunted house, and that poetry and witchcraft are legitimate political strategies. She’s interested in radical solutions to systemic emergencies, and her work often tries to breathe life into the shredded, ghostly remnants of pagan spirituality that haunt her settler's psyche.
Isola Tong (Libra, Fire Rabbit, Manila) is a Filipinx-Chinese artist and architect engaging the intersection of autochthonous queerness and nature through performance, installation, print, painting and moving image to disrupt and explore the tensions in the binarized understandings of nature and culture. She comes from a line of Babaylan or Filipinx shamans in the central region of the Philippine archipelago.
Many thanks to Swab Art Fair and Fundacio Vila Casas for their support.