Joëlle Tuerlinckx

Joëlle Tuerlinckx (born 1958 in Brussels, Belgium) is a multi-media artist whose works pose as archival materials. Her visual vocabulary includes books, display cases, wall installations, video screens, and (not least) the exhibition rooms themselves. In her situation-specific presentations, she establishes a relationship between simple things and found objects, texts, drawings, her own earlier works, and film material rich with intertextuality. Through the application of different methods of transformation and an infinite system of references and quotes, she lets us experience space and time, present and past, memory and immediacy all on the same level. Tuerlinckx' s works are variable; they remain fixated only for a moment. They are subject to a permanent process of reconsideration and re-adaptation in which media categories and designations are continually subverted, leaving the works in an open process.