Tangent Projects is a curatorial initiative set up to work with national and international emerging and mid-career artists on site responsive exhibitions and projects.
With a desire to add multiplicity to the current art archetype, Tangent Projects endeavors to showcase exemplary works in a variety of different media and platforms – including books, exhibitions, performance and online commissions. Our intent is to invite artists to explore “tangents” or diversions within their practice.
In offering the opportunity for digressions to be pursued, ideas and processes that might normally have been discarded in favor of the main discourse will have the potential to reach a conclusion. Without a commercial bias and with experimentation encouraged, Tangent Projects proposes the prospect for artists to develop the deviations within their artistic dialogue.
In simple terms, to give artists the leeway to “go off on a tangent”.
In early 2019 there were some big changes, Tangent Projects became a cultural association and rented an old garage in the Santa Eulalia area of L’Hospitalet del Llobregat, We then spent the following few months setting up a small artist driven space with the remit of not only offering an exhibition space for artists to experiment with their practice but also a space to act as a counterpoint to the current gallery model by actively seek to redress and challenge inequality within the arts by exhibiting work by artists that are all too often marginalized.
Within this new art space there are 7 “cost price” artist studios and a small art gallery/project space. The gallery opened in June 2019.
Curated by Mana Pinto April 19th – May 31st, opening on Friday April 19th from 19h. In June 2019 Tangent Projects gallery opened its doors with its first exhibition, ELÁSTICO by Marina Rubio. Five years later, we are excited for Marina to return to the gallery with new work and a new exhibition, Hurgar hogar, curated by Mana Pinto. In this exhibition, Marina Rubio encourages us to connect with the past by introducing a practice where she collects and restores found ceramic fragments from her maternal grandmother’s house in Cabolafuente, Aragon. Her practice challenges the common belief that suggests that the lifespan of objects concludes when they break, and instead focuses on documenting these ruptures not as the end but as a starting point for a new narrative, generating new versions of objects capable of retaining memories beyond their utility. Images, videos, found fragments and altered objects become a link to the past, fusing stories and shared experiences between generations.
We are very excited to announce that we are accepting applications for our studio residency programme for 2024/25 – The deadline for applications is January 19th, 2024. Residencies are for 3 months and the placements will be between: September – December 2024 We welcome applications from national and international artists, and we encourage applications from artists/creatives working in all different media. We do not limit the type of work submitted and are open to interesting ideas and suggestions, within the realm of our capabilities. All applicants must be adults, over the age of 18. We are an underfunded not for profit and our residencies are self funded. The price of the residency is 140 euros per month. Please email [email protected] with any questions. it.ly/TPcrntlnks4SM
