'Roaming the Imaginal': Eden Tinto Collins' First Exhibition in Belgium

'Roaming the Imaginal' marks Eden Tinto Collins' first exhibition in Belgium. The immersive audiovisual installation delves into the errant story of an interconnected world translated into landscape, movement, posture and sound. Gravitating around the notion of the imaginal as that iconic space between the real and the imaginary, the exhibition journeys through the shadows of a cosmic void, resonating with the deep sounds of the universe's vibrational core. 

Eden Tinto Collins’ practice cuts across a variety of genres – from epic narratives to music videos to documentary – to create fantastic universes on the brink of myths and the burlesque, emphasizing the hyperconnectivity of our digital age. Her films, poetry, installations, paintings and performances are rooted in “wor(l)ds without failure, low tech, DIY, and nourished by surrealism, magic realism, science fiction and cosmology".

Eden Tinto Collins
Roaming the Imaginal
25.01-25.05
We - Fr 13:00 - 17:00 & Sa 12:00 - 18:00 
free entry

exhibition curators: Sofia Dati & Niels Van Tomme
coproduction: argos 
with the support of the Kadist Foundation
installation: Anne Marie Himmelmann
design: Atelier Brenda & Amélie Bakker
curatorial intern: Sina Eden

About the artist

Eden Tinto Collins (she/they/we) developed their visual arts practise through the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Paris Cergy. As a poet, hypermedia artist, or - Trobairitz, Méta, she explores notions of networks and interdependence, f.r.ictions between melancholy, mythology, post-trans, even cyber-humanity. Her projects are relational, noetic (to put thought and spirit in relation) and her devices take the form of installations, video performances, and works that make use of voice and orality.

Their first story, ‘Bonne Arrivée’, was published in July 2021 in the collection fraîches fictions. That same summer, they opened the Acéphale Studio, in partnership with Societies, Apes, Sequens and the association Worms Prestige in Joinville-le-Pont (Val de Marne). Together, they gave shape to a third space dedicated to co-creation, image-making and gathering. Since 2022, Eden Tinto Collins has been developing a production house that started up a number of site-specific projects, including ‘Numin’ (a space opera) and ‘A Pinch Of Kola’ (a quantum sitcom).

Related programme

SA 02.03 Writing workshop with poet, essayist and journalist Douce Dibondo
SA 11.05 Concerts by Farida Amadou, Jamika Ajalon & Sophye Soliveau
SA 25.05 Finissage

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