Tangent Projects Studio Residency Spring/Summer 2022
For our Spring/Summer 2022 residency programme we were joined by Laia Massana Castany and Liang-Jung Chen.
Many thanks to the selection team - Evin Collis, Elin Lindecrantz and Lucia Retamar - for all their hard work.
Laia Massana Castany is a visual artist from Barcelona.
She graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Málaga (UMA), specialising in painting and analogue photography from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and in interdisciplinary art practices from the University of Barcelona.
During the last years of her bachelor's degree, her interest in the idea of "Ephemerity" continued to grow. She found her research space in the kitchen and experimented with foods such as legumes, vegetables and bread.
Laia’s work reflects through different media on the privilege of self-management of time. She is interested in the concept of nutrition beyond our physiology. Which spaces, situations, or routines nourish us if we separate this idea from its close relationship with the productivity of the body in the present capitalist context?
Liang-Jung Chen is a Taiwanese-born London-based artist and designer working across sculptures, installations and narrative environments.
Deeply interested in the tension embedded in everyday scenarios, her works are often informed by politics hidden in artefacts and material culture theory. Her background in industrial design allows her to bridge diverse perspectives with detail-oriented awareness.
So far, she has developed two long-term projects of different natures. The first one, The Misused (2018), is a design project that studies hardware culture around the world and later repurposes them into sensible homeware items. The second is The Egg Rack Made a Disclaimer (2020), a series of interactive installations that support eggs in precarious manners, exploring the tension between boundaries and vulnerabilities.
She is a recipient of the Dezeen Awards 2021 within the Homeware Design category. She had previously undertaken residencies in Domaine de Boisbuchet (Lessac, France) and Makerversity (London, UK).
To accompany Laia and Liang’s end-of-residency exhibition project, Lightness of Being, we collaborated with Trio Editorial to produce a zine publication - click here to see a pdf version of their zine or visit Tangent Projects to pick up your free printed copy.