Creating
Space
Titia
Ex is an artist whose ideas are shaped by the experience of
space. This means that she rarely produces work you can look
at while it is there hanging immobile on the wall. Most of the
works by Ex are experienced as they arise in space. You can
adopt several standpoints vis-à-vis this work, and view it from
various angles, by crossing the spaces in which the artist places
her work. You can think what you like about it, because she
allows you the space to do this.
Much of the work by Titia Ex is made for the public space, on
plazas, on and inside buildings, in the city and the landscape,
in traffic, in the midst of infrastructure and gardens, next
to houses and offices. The meaning of her work must therefore
be sought in the relationships it enters into with the surroundings.
The history of that place or specific situation is important,
but also the current use of the space, the variable ways of
approaching that place. Titia Ex does not select a pre-existing
work from her oeuvre for these public situations, but seeks
out the exigency of imbuing these spaces with a special significance.
She creates a new work to achieve this.
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