Tessa M. Den Uyl
1973, Ultrecht. Lives and works in Florence

Wakeward could be a migration of small white balls that move into the light of sunset where birds cove relics of thoughts.
Power makes us forget our nature; during the voyage we are all
partecipants in its legacy; ideological violence obscures passive myths.
Someone before the curtains of the undecided, observes his own future
in undefined space. Sehr langsam, the song perforates subterranean cells. The main character, like blotting papar, above the cerebral coral of
humanity, digs perhaps beyond the iron age, restoring the union of man and animal, dissolved long before.
Filtered by pain, his consciousness becomes vision, duckweed in a
veinegary red maze. If a fly does not excite a cement wall, it will succeed in going beyond, but the main character slows his pace, limiting himself. Twisted roots form the crown of a palaeolithic king, an ancient faith for building; bitter, the main character treads it underfoot. Beyond the visceral landscape tinkles a wild symphony in the ashes of being.

Selected group exhibitions:
2003: Lia Rumma, Naples; 2002: Poetronica, Spazio Oberdan, Milan; Tracce di un seminario, Viafarini, Milan; Videodays, Vicchio, Florence; Ouverture, c/o Milan; Festa dell’arte, MACRO, Rome; 2001: Videomarea, Palazzo Borsa dei Valori, Genova; Antropologica, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence; Video.it, Torino; The energy clothes, Chiesa di S. Francesco, Como; Solovideo, Spazio Erasmus Brera, Milan; Invideo, Spazio Oberdan, Milan; 1999: Lijn 21, Stg. 6 OW, Amsterdam.




 
Wakeward, 2003. Video stills.