PALIMPSEST: WOMEN, TEXT, AND THE ACT OF SELF-INSCRIPTION
Artist & Works
Artist & Works
Virginie Tan
Virginie Tan is an artist and designer based in London, French born of Sino-Cambodian
descent. She works across the virtual and the physical, blending elements of interactivity,
video, sound and poetry.
Her practice explores the dynamics of technology and its impact on humans’ behaviours,
between the technological sublime and the daze it puts us through. She aims to highlight the
functional and dysfunctional of technology’s usage, by creating a time-space prone to
slowness – opposed to the digital exponential speed, almost as to heal us from it.
She has exhibited at Christie’s, RuptureXIBIT, Hypha, and has been invited to discoveries
residencies at Villa Medici in Rome and Villa Noailles in Hyères. She graduated in 2017 from
the MA Interaction Design at UAL - London College of Communication.
website:https://www.virginietan.com
it’s winter (2024)
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Video, Screen, LED light |
‘it’s winter’ is part of the series ‘SCREENPOETRY’ – an invitation to revisit screensavers
through poetry, to let the screen become a quiet space again. ‘it’s winter’ is an attempt to
translate the hardships of our times, while mirroring how we are absorbed by our screens
and feeds – like being in a trance.
it’s summer(2025)
Video, Screen, LED light
‘it’s summer’ concludes the SCREENPOETRY series, functioning as a direct counterpart to
‘it’s winter’ – together forming a diptych. This work situates the intimate within the broader contexts of the economic and climate crises, maintaining the series’ exploration of screens as spaces of stillness, while revealing how the global and the individual collapse together into one endless feed. SCREENPOETRY marked the entry of poetry into my practice, a
language that has since permeated every aspect of my work. Concluding the series marks a
shift – my words no longer contained, but out in the present.