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Sinta Tantra: Together, Yet Forever Apart - Liverpool Biennial 2012

Date uploaded: October 10, 2012

Sinta Tantra: Together, Yet Forever Apart - Liverpool Biennial 2012
15 september - 25 november 2012

Using colour as her primary material, Sinta Tantra creates architectural interventions on a grand scale. Tantraʼs new commission Together, Yet Forever Apart reflects upon how buildings welcome or repel us, and how bodies navigate environments shaped from light, colour and physical
structures.

Together, Yet Forever Apart explores the idea of falling in love and the roles that physical spaces can play within it. Pink light and reflective golds echo idyllic sunsets, alluding to hidden love and to that which is left unsaid. Other inspiration for the colour scheme includes a study of the film In the
Mood For Love
by Wong Kar-wai, as well as the colours of the late artist Mark Morrisroe's photograms, showing inside Open Eye.

Together, Yet Forever Apart was commissioned by Open Eye Gallery and Mann Island for Liverpool Biennial 2012.

Sinta Tantra is a British artist of Balinese descent. Born in New York, USA, Tantra spent her childhood in Indonesia, America and Britain. She graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2003 and completed her postgraduate degree at Royal Academy of Arts in 2006. In the same year, she was awarded the prestigious Deutsche Bank Award in Fine Art. Sinta Tantra lives and works in London.

Visit www.openeye.org.uk/wall-work/sinta-tantra-liverpool-biennial-2012/

Sinta Tantra for Liverpool Biennial 2012 © Mark McNulty

Sinta Tantra for Liverpool Biennial 2012 © Mark McNulty