Biographies

Tan, Fiona

Born at Pekanbaru in Indonesia, Fiona Tan moved to Holland in 1988.
After having completed her BFA at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 1992, Fiona Tan continued her studies at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunst in Amsterdam where she still lives and works.
An artist of international repute, she mainly works with video and photography.
Her videos are characterised by a strong expressive aspect, the fruit of the very idea of travel, of movement, of mutation and the relationship between east and west. The concepts of space and time become a dimension of thought rather than mere convention essential to daily existence. It is for this reason that the nucleus of her poetic resides in the profound development memory, the visually organised immersion of the recollection artistically contextualised in a current creative apparatus, thanks also to a skilful and elegant use of technology.