Fiona Tan: With the Other Hand

Fiona Tan has occupied a pivotal position with­in contemporary art since the late 1990s; her ­moving-image and photographic artworks ­ are familiar from many key international biennials and exhibitions. Fiona Tan explores history and time and our place within them, working within the contested territory of representation. Deeply ­embedded in all of Fiona Tan’s work is her ­fas­cination with the mutability of identity, the ­de­ceptive nature of representation and the play of memory across time and space in a world ­increasingly shaped by global culture. Both books mark the occasion of Fiona Tan’s first extensive mid-career retros­pective, ­presented concurrently at the Museum der ­Moderne Salzburg and Kunsthalle Krems. The exhibition cata­logue, ­dis­cusses the works drawn from two decades shown across both ­venues, including the newly com­missioned video works »Gray Glass« and »Pickpockets«.

Eva Sangiorgi, born 1978 in Faenza, is an Italian cultural manager and curator. Fiona Tan is a visual artist and filmmaker and best known for her skillfully crafted video and film installations. Nina Schedlmayer lives as an art critic in Vienna and is editor-in-chief of the cultural magazine morgen. Ruth Horak is an author, curator, and lecturer on contemporary art and photography. Florian Steininger, born 1974 in Vienna, is director of the Kunsthalle Krems since 2016. Since September 2018 Thorsten Sadowsky has been director of the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, and is an author of numerous publications on classical modern and contemporary art.