Tine Colen

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Tine Colen

Whisks

2020

It was an old custom to saw off the top of the pine tree that had been decorated in the house after Christmas. Trimmed, it turned into a whisk for stirring porridge that year. I read about it in a book of Christmas stories while reading to my two daughters before bedtime. We hadn’t brought a Christmas tree into the house, but in the middle of January, the sidewalks were full, so we took evening walks with a bag and a saw. The tree tops were trimmed – and later also shaped by steaming, peeling bark, bending, and drilling – into whisks of all kinds of variations that we gave to people around us.

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After her training in the medium of painting, Tine Colen (1985) felt the need not to simply represent or imitate the world, but to be in the midst of things. Gradually, the following elements became characteristic of her work: The blurring of boundaries between art and functional objects by creating items that carry meaning and can sometimes be used / working with natural materials in a cyclical process, often defined by their temporary, seasonal nature, as well as human-made materials considered waste / seeking specific knowledge about plant usage through the study of ethnobotany and anthropology / a slow and labor-intensive making process, rooted in collective creation / generating value through the way objects are used, gifted, and passed on / using public space as a workshop, where the physical work sparks conversation, encounters, and change.

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