Chie’s cardboard sculptures embrace time and space through expansive, often 3-dimensional and moving shapes, ambiguous compositions of body parts in various degrees of abstraction.
The works are interactive and created for the particular space they are placed in with the intention of achieving specific forms of interaction in the audience.
PROJECTS
Sonic
Mirage
Set design for an Afrofuturist
Performance @90mil
Sonic Mirage is an multidisciplinary, collective performance and an Afro Futurist Odyssey about cosmic energy and alignment.
Wedding
Play
Fight
An interactive space on social connection @GalerieWedding
Wedding Play Fight is a neighbourhood arena.
A place where you can learn to box, let off energy and just be.
The walls show Wedding martial arts clubs with their trainers and fighters in the form of cardboard figures that move between painting and sculpture.
People training just a few streets away from the exhibition venue watch over you while you try out your first boxing moves on the small mat in the centre of the room, watch a fight or get into a fight with your friends.
Activist
Choreographies
of care
A collaborative carboard, textile and sound installation on queer heritage and survival @ngbk am Alex
The installation Defining Survival (Queer Everexistence in Motion) considers survival as connection across places and times, as leaving traces and spores, as becoming part of a cycle through the combination of Austin Nortey's work with second hand textiles and metal scraps that speaks of the connection of material, time and change, and Chie Marquart-Tabel's semi-figurative, mystical formal language that runs through cardboard sculptures and the quilt, creating objects of connection and care.
By inviting viewers to lie on the quilt, watch the movements of the sculptures and follow the poetic sound installation by Bodi Babatola, the choreographies of care end here with a place that invites you to pause, arrive and rest.
Austin Nortey and Chie Marquart-Tabel use the image of an enduring, creative force that resists the attempts of human and above all white, Western and colonial dominance and regimentation and endures and survives so-called civilisations in all their dissidence and deviousness. Survival, through circularity and circulation, through germination, growth, blossoming, withering, dissolving, resting, germinating.
