TINE GUNS

Cinebooks

Nov 17th, 2022—Feb 6th, 2023
OPENING RECEPTION Thursday, Nov 17th, 6—8pm

Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 2 PM—6 PM. Admission is free. Viewing is by appointment only.

To purchase books from the exhibition, please click here.

from The Collector © Tine Guns

Penumbra Foundation is pleased to present Cinebooks, a solo exhibition by artist Tine Guns. 

Tine Guns is an artist who uses mediums such as film, photobooks and installations to explore perception, memory, and the fragmented notion of time in the human experience. In recent years she has searched for ways to translate sequencing methods from cinematic montage into the artistic practice of the contemporary photobook. Cinebooks gives a first overview of these books.

Guns’s practice revolves around the inability to capture a particular moment in time and our memory’s fallibility. She often bases her work on a personal memory or an event from our collective memory. The linear progression connoted by the sequencing of a visual narrative suggests a persistent transitory state that, for Guns, rather than being about arriving somewhere in a story, evokes a feeling of being somewhere, of being ‘in between’. 

from Amoureux Solitaires © Tine Guns

Points of coincidence appear throughout Guns’s imagery and its construction. Two actors are engaging in a kiss with images of a dog drinking water simultaneously spliced between them in Amoureux Solitaires (2014); the interior of a hotel room and the sea beyond the curtained window panes, but also located in the space between reality and memory in The Diver (2015); The Collector’s (2017) focus on the male versus female gaze and the implication of voyeurism in photography and the gaze of the viewer; the human quest for understanding amidst our transient perceptions that will never permit an ultimately conclusive meaning in Watching The Black Between The Stars (2021).

Guns investigates the intermediary spaces in books; every aspect is a potential site for transformation. The white spaces that frame photographic panels and the transitions between fragments of images extend time or freeze it. Turning a page is to experience a new perception of movement, of one space unfolding into another. Cinematic editing techniques and architectural structures meet the conditions of still images in a book, creating a grey zone between mediums. For Guns, the book itself can be an intermediary space, a mirror alluding to reality or reconstructing it, reflecting the perspective that there is always more to know and more to see. 

About the artist

Tine Guns (BE. 1983) lives and works in Ghent, Belgium. She is working on her PhD, entitled The Photobook as a Visual Page-Turner: To Move and be Moved (LUCA / KU Leuven), and participated in Bioscopic Books: Artist’s books as seen through the cinema eye (LUCA). She currently teaches at the Mixed Media Studio of LUCA, School of Arts Gent.

She has exhibited in Cinematek/BOZAR Brussels, Netwerk Aalst and Casino Luxembourg. Her films were screened at festivals like Jean Rouch Festival in Paris and biennials like Ostrale in Dresden. Her photos were selected for Voies Off Arles, Antwerp Photo and Salut d’honneur Jan Hoet. In 2015 she was selected for .tiff Young Artists Belgium after a nomination by FOMU Antwerp, while her artist’s book The Diver was shortlisted for the MACK First Book Award. She was awarded the 2017 Biennial Prize for Visual Arts by the Province of East-Flanders.

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About Penumbra Project Gallery
The 300 square-foot Project Gallery offers emerging and mid-career artists a place to present new work. The exhibitions are developed in conjunction with Penumbra’s editorial or educational programming.  


About Penumbra Foundation
Penumbra Foundation is a non-profit organization that brings together the Art and Science of Photography through education, research, outreach, public and residency programs. Its goal is to be a comprehensive resource for photographers at any level, artists, students, professionals, historians, researchers, conservators and curators.  Penumbra specializes in advancing the use of historic and alternative photographic technologies for contemporary image-making.