Tanya Leighton | IN ADVANCE OF A SHIPWRECK:

Studio for Propositional Cinema

Studio for Propositional Cinema
Notice to the Reader.
22 November – 17 December 2022, Tanya Leighton, Berlin
Studio for Propositional Cinema
The Storytellers’ Fountain; a tale told by A Gust of Wind through the low and dark rooms
19 December 2019 – 22 February 2020, Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples
Studio for Propositional Cinema
& faintly heard (as it sinks, slowly): with The Tenderness of Maggots
7 January – 5 February 2017, Swiss Institute, New York

Studio for Propositional Cinema
(TO THE SPECTATOR:)
3 September – 8 October 2016, Tanya Leighton, Berlin
Studio for Propositional Cinema
9 August – 6 September 2014, Tanya Leighton, Berlin
Pavel Büchler, Jeff Geys, Ariane Müller, Nina Chua, Sarah Kürten, Studio for Propositional Cinema
Life & Opinions
28 April – 24 June 2017, Tanya Leighton, Berlin

News

Publication: Myths and Manifestos
Published by Kunstverein München and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König

Biography

Dissolved in 2023 Inaugurated in 2013

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2022

Notice to the Reader., Tanya Leighton, Berlin

2022

Fabulist Manifesto (At Play), Galerie Max Mayer, Düsseldorf
The Camera of Disaster, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany

2021

Fabulist Manifesto: Audio/Visual Agitprop (for Children), Swallow Project Space, Vilnius, Lithuania

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023

on affairs, Halle für Kunst Steiermark, Graz

2022

EVERYTHING IS BIG, SOMETIMES MONSTROUS AND REALLY INTENSE, Galeria Wschód, Warsaw

2021

A Sculpture in Search of an Author, LAYR, Vienna

View full CV Download CV

Press

Studio for Propositional Cinema, IN ADVANCE OF A SHIPWRECK:, 2016

24 October – 7 November 2016, Kunstverein Düsseldorf
Installation view

Studio for Propositional Cinema, IN ADVANCE OF A SHIPWRECK:, 2016

24 October – 7 November 2016, Kunstverein Düsseldorf
Installation view

Studio for Propositional Cinema, IN ADVANCE OF A SHIPWRECK:, 2016

24 October – 7 November 2016, Kunstverein Düsseldorf
Installation view

Studio for Propositional Cinema, IN ADVANCE OF A SHIPWRECK:, 2016

24 October – 7 November 2016, Kunstverein Düsseldorf
Installation view

Studio for Propositional Cinema, IN ADVANCE OF A SHIPWRECK:, 2016

24 October – 7 November 2016, Kunstverein Düsseldorf
Installation view

Studio for Propositional Cinema, IN ADVANCE OF A SHIPWRECK:, 2016

24 October – 7 November 2016, Kunstverein Düsseldorf
Installation view

Studio for Propositional Cinema, IN ADVANCE OF A SHIPWRECK:, 2016

24 October – 7 November 2016, Kunstverein Düsseldorf
Installation view

Studio for Propositional Cinema, IN ADVANCE OF A SHIPWRECK:, 2016

24 October – 7 November 2016, Kunstverein Düsseldorf
Installation view

Studio for Propositional Cinema, IN ADVANCE OF A SHIPWRECK:, 2016

24 October – 7 November 2016, Kunstverein Düsseldorf
Installation view

Studio for Propositional Cinema, IN ADVANCE OF A SHIPWRECK:, 2016

24 October – 7 November 2016, Kunstverein Düsseldorf
Installation view

Studio for Propositional Cinema, IN ADVANCE OF A SHIPWRECK:, 2016

24 October – 7 November 2016, Kunstverein Düsseldorf
Installation view

Studio for Propositional Cinema, IN ADVANCE OF A SHIPWRECK:, 2016

24 October – 7 November 2016, Kunstverein Düsseldorf
Installation view

Studio for Propositional Cinema, IN ADVANCE OF A SHIPWRECK:, 2016

24 October – 7 November 2016, Kunstverein Düsseldorf
Installation view

Studio for Propositional Cinema, IN ADVANCE OF A SHIPWRECK:, 2016

24 October – 7 November 2016, Kunstverein Düsseldorf
Installation view

Studio for Propositional Cinema, IN ADVANCE OF A SHIPWRECK:, 2016

24 October – 7 November 2016, Kunstverein Düsseldorf
Installation view

Studio for Propositional Cinema, IN ADVANCE OF A SHIPWRECK:, 2016

24 October – 7 November 2016, Kunstverein Düsseldorf
Installation view

Studio for Propositional Cinema, IN ADVANCE OF A SHIPWRECK:, 2016

24 October – 7 November 2016, Kunstverein Düsseldorf
Installation view

Studio for Propositional Cinema, IN ADVANCE OF A SHIPWRECK:, 2016

24 October – 7 November 2016, Kunstverein Düsseldorf
Installation view

Studio for Propositional Cinema, IN ADVANCE OF A SHIPWRECK:, 2016

24 October – 7 November 2016, Kunstverein Düsseldorf
Installation view

Studio for Propositional Cinema, IN ADVANCE OF A SHIPWRECK:, 2016

24 October – 7 November 2016, Kunstverein Düsseldorf
Installation view

Studio for Propositional Cinema, IN ADVANCE OF A SHIPWRECK:, 2016

24 October – 7 November 2016, Kunstverein Düsseldorf
Installation view

Studio for Propositional Cinema, IN ADVANCE OF A SHIPWRECK:, 2016

24 October – 7 November 2016, Kunstverein Düsseldorf
Installation view

Studio for Propositional Cinema, IN ADVANCE OF A SHIPWRECK:, 2016

24 October – 7 November 2016, Kunstverein Düsseldorf
Installation view

Studio for Propositional Cinema, IN ADVANCE OF A SHIPWRECK:, 2016

24 October – 7 November 2016, Kunstverein Düsseldorf
Installation view

Studio for Propositional Cinema, IN ADVANCE OF A SHIPWRECK:, 2016

24 October – 7 November 2016, Kunstverein Düsseldorf
Installation view

Studio for Propositional Cinema, IN ADVANCE OF A SHIPWRECK:, 2016

24 October – 7 November 2016, Kunstverein Düsseldorf
Installation view

Studio for Propositional Cinema, IN ADVANCE OF A SHIPWRECK:, 2016

24 October – 7 November 2016, Kunstverein Düsseldorf
Installation view

Studio for Propositional Cinema, IN ADVANCE OF A SHIPWRECK:, 2016

24 October – 7 November 2016, Kunstverein Düsseldorf
Installation view

Studio for Propositional Cinema, IN ADVANCE OF A SHIPWRECK:, 2016

24 October – 7 November 2016, Kunstverein Düsseldorf
Installation view

Studio for Propositional Cinema, IN ADVANCE OF A SHIPWRECK:, 2016

24 October – 7 November 2016, Kunstverein Düsseldorf
Installation view

IN ADVANCE OF A SHIPWRECK:
DISTRIBUTED WITHIN A NECESSITY TO RELEASE LANGUAGE & IMAGES INTO A WORLD WHICH DOES NOT WANT THEM BUT DOES (LIKE OXYGEN) REQUIRE THEM:

IN ADVANCE OF A SHIPWRECK:
POCKETS OF AIR LIKE POCKETS OF TIME BILLOWING LIKE SAILS PUNCHED BY THE WIND WITH A FORCE IN INVERSE RELATION TO THE LAST GASPS ENDEAVOURED BEFORE INEVITABLE DESCENT FROM THE GASEOUS INTO THE LIQUID STATES LIKE US & LIKE ALL THINGS WHICH HAVE BEEN & WILL BE
VACUUMED INTO THE EMPTY CHASM OF FUTURES OF CERTAIN & UNCERTAIN FINITUDES WHICH WAIT & CONSUME LIKE THE AIR:

IN ADVANCE OF A SHIPWRECK:
WE AS WELL MAY HAVE BEEN & MAY BE DISTRIBUTED WITHIN THIS WORLD & PERHAPS FAINTLY HEARD
BEFORE BEING DISSOLVED INTO THE CRUSHING CLOUDS

&

IN ADVANCE OF A SHIPWRECK:
EXHIBITED WITHIN A NECESSITY TO PLACE LANGUAGE & IMAGES ONTO A WORLD WHICH DOES NOT WANT THEM BUT DOES (LIKE HYDROGEN) REQUIRE THEM:

IN ADVANCE OF A SHIPWRECK:
REFRACTED & SPLAYED ATOP & ALONG A PLANE WITH CORRESPONDING PARTS BREACHING & JUTTING
PERPENDICULARLY FROM THEM CARGO UNLOADED YET NOT YET WEIGHTLESS LIKE THE SPLAYED INTERIOR OF A RAT ITS ORGANS REARRANGED IN MIRROR IMAGE RE-PLACED JUST ENOUGH TO ALTER MEANING & REVEALED JUST ENOUGH TO CLARIFY THAT LIKE US & LIKE ALL THINGS WHICH HAVE BEEN & WILL BE ENVELOPED BY THE GELATINOUS CHASMS OF HISTORIES WITH CERTAIN & UNCERTAIN QUANTITIES WHICH WATCH & CONSUME LIKE THE SEA:

IN ADVANCE OF A SHIPWRECK:
WE AS WELL MAY HAVE BEEN & MAY BE EXHIBITED WITHIN THIS WORLD & PERHAPS BRIEFLY SEEN BEFORE BEING DISSOLVED BY THE CURRENTS

&

IN ADVANCE OF A SHIPWRECK:
(WE ARE) FLOATING TENTATIVELY ON & BETWEEN SYMBIOTIC YET OPPOSING STATES WHICH ARE NEVERTHELESS UNITED IN THEIR INDIFFERENCE OR HOSTILITY TO OUR BREACHABLE FORMATIONS
WHOSE EFFECTS LIKE GULLS OR LIKE WHALES: LIKE WINDS OR WAVES: ARE STRENGTHENED THROUGH QUANTITY & MAY IN TURN HUMIDIFY OR EVAPORATE IN ORDER THAT THE OSTENSIBLY INEVITABLE
MAY BE EVADED OR MAY BE DELAYED OR REVEALED AS TENUOUS CONSTRUCTIONS: LIKE A HURRICANE COAXED TO A BREEZE: LIKE A TSUNAMI DILUTED TO A RIPPLE: WITH STILL ENOUGH POWER TO ERODE: IF THERE IS STILL ENOUGH TIME TO DO SO

✝