Exhibition & residency programm
2010
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Queue
Tina Hage
LoBe, Berlin2010
Exhibition views
Queuewall installation, photographic prints, 320x700cm
facadewall installation, photographic prints, 360x300cm
About
Show at LoBo
I showed in the final exhibition of the residency two works: facade and Queue. Both are photographic wall installations. I started developing the installation Queue before I spend time in the residency and I was then able at LoBe to finalise the piece:
‘The large-format wall piece Schlange/Queue (2010), which runs across a corner is a site-specific installation. It consists of individual sheets of paper attached to the wall, leaving spaces in between. Here, Hage embodies a diverse range of English middle class characters, patiently waiting in a queue. The interplay between the white wall visible in the gaps and the images of the queuing figures creates the rhythm of standstill and movement typical of a queue. Schlange/Queue was created in response to the run on the English bank Northern Rock in 2007, when pictures of Britons queuing up in front of branches all over England went around the world. Similar images circulated in the media when people rushed to rescue their savings in Greece (2015) or in Argentina (2019). Also on 24 February 2022, when Russian forces invaded Ukraine and the exchange rate of the rouble plummeted, images circulated in the media showing Russian citizens enduring long waits outside ATMs and banks. However, Hage cites a campaign by the British advertising agency Saatchi and Saatchi from the 1970s as the direct image template for the wall installation. Designed for the Conservative Party’s 1979 election campaign, it shows a seemingly endless line of unemployed people queuing outside a job centre. With its slogan “Labour isn’t working” below the queue of people, the poster is said to have helped put Margaret Thatcher into power.’
(Text by Christine Takengny)
About Lobe
LoBe is a residency-led contemporary art space, which provide artists with an opportunity to develop their practice within a environment that promotes dialogue, collaboration, exhibition making and interdisciplinary practice. The aim of the project is t develop meaningful cross-cultural networks within a British Germa context by giving artists from the UK the opportunity to collaborat with Berlin based artist and visa versa, in our permanent space in Berlin.
Show at LoBo
I showed in the final exhibition of the residency two works: facade and Queue. Both are photographic wall installations. I started developing the installation Queue before I spend time in the residency and I was then able at LoBe to finalise the piece:
‘The large-format wall piece Schlange/Queue (2010), which runs across a corner is a site-specific installation. It consists of individual sheets of paper attached to the wall, leaving spaces in between. Here, Hage embodies a diverse range of English middle class characters, patiently waiting in a queue. The interplay between the white wall visible in the gaps and the images of the queuing figures creates the rhythm of standstill and movement typical of a queue. Schlange/Queue was created in response to the run on the English bank Northern Rock in 2007, when pictures of Britons queuing up in front of branches all over England went around the world. Similar images circulated in the media when people rushed to rescue their savings in Greece (2015) or in Argentina (2019). Also on 24 February 2022, when Russian forces invaded Ukraine and the exchange rate of the rouble plummeted, images circulated in the media showing Russian citizens enduring long waits outside ATMs and banks. However, Hage cites a campaign by the British advertising agency Saatchi and Saatchi from the 1970s as the direct image template for the wall installation. Designed for the Conservative Party’s 1979 election campaign, it shows a seemingly endless line of unemployed people queuing outside a job centre. With its slogan “Labour isn’t working” below the queue of people, the poster is said to have helped put Margaret Thatcher into power.’
(Text by Christine Takengny)
About Lobe
LoBe is a residency-led contemporary art space, which provide artists with an opportunity to develop their practice within a environment that promotes dialogue, collaboration, exhibition making and interdisciplinary practice. The aim of the project is t develop meaningful cross-cultural networks within a British Germa context by giving artists from the UK the opportunity to collaborat with Berlin based artist and visa versa, in our permanent space in Berlin.