In this new exhibition, Tiong Ang reflects on his accumulated experiences, the paths he has travelled alongside others, the caravans in which he has spent the night. He paints portraits of his band members, yet depicts them as abstract drawings or as masks of ‘others’. This radical reduction does not signal an absence, but rather a dense accumulation – a layering of shared stories, vibrations and the ‘second’ lives found within the collaborative process.
Second Minds, Third Eyes serves both as a pause and as a continuation.
This project, initially conceived for the Bucharest Biennale in 2020, was, however, postponed due to the Covid-19 crisis and consequently expanded into a series of projects taking place between 2022 to 2025 in public and private spaces all over Europe.
The beginning – a caravan arriving at a large scaffolding structure at the foot of Ceaușescu’s
former People’s Palace – was a convergence of various histories, disciplines, experiences and directions.
This presentation at Lumen Travo showcases a selection of images, both moving and still, and objects from this process. Since 2017, Tiong has been working under the name Tiong Ang (& Company), a collaborative collective of creators whose reputation remains ‘unclear, uncertain and ambivalent’, although the artists see these as a creative quality and a mark of distinction. Originally conceived for a seminar exhibition in Utrecht’ based former BAK basis voor actuele kunst, Ang’s ‘band’ explores a way of working that is intergenerational, transdisciplinary and affective, whilst pursuing a modest, slow and intuitive approach to collaborative connections.