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                   The Cobra Museum of Modern Art, NL


6th edition Cobra Art Prize Amstelveen

Jennifer Tee


The exhibition highlights various thematic aspects of Tee’s work over the past decade including the most recent developments. The exhibition’s title derives from André Breton’s novel Nadja (1928) and refers to a recurrent subject in Tee’s works: the liminal state between the real and the possible. Through a web of references to Western culture, art history, and Eastern philosophy, Tee investigates the complexity of overlapping cultures and identities. Tee’s exploration of the spiritual dimensions within her subjects of reference results in works that hover between their concrete form and their loaded potential as carriers of an anticipated action, ritual and animation. During the exhibition, several performances take



PERFORMANCE
CONCRETE INTERIOR
Jan 31 th and 7th February, 2016
Choreography:
Jennifer Tee and Miri Lee
Dancer: Miri Lee 

 During her yearlong residency at ISCP in New York City in 2012, Tee created a choreography for ISCP’s Open Studios presentation with Korean dancer Miri Lee. The piece was performed on the rooftop of the Dutch residency apartment on Beaver Street in Manhattan. In the past, Tee has worked on several knitted floorpieces with New York-based artisan Sahara Briscoe. For this new work, they hand dyed the wool themselves. Creating a contrast between the object and movement, dancer Lee limned the beams of the crystalline octagonal form, enclosing an interior, psychological space. The piece was inspired by What Is Possible (1980) a poem by American poet, essayist, and feminist Adrienne Rich on the desire for an untroubled, clear mind.