Tina Roeder
“An examining table is a place where the patient is very vulnerable," says artist Tina Roeder, talking about her piece Naked Couch. Its title, she says, refers to the psychoanalyst’s sofa on which people reveal their intimate secrets. Her intention in pieces like this is to make us see objects with new eyes, to find our own way of looking. “How often do we really look at things properly?" she says. “Everything is pre-experienced for us: we can even see on TV how to have sex. Where’s the intimacy?"
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Exhibitions
2005 - Picnic for Two, Galerie Lachaert, Tielrode, Belgium
2004 - Master Pieces, Droog Design, Amsterdam
2003 - Bright Minds, Beautiful Ideas, Design Biennial, Lisbon
2000 - Open Urban Picnic, Open Urban Picnic, London
1999 - Conversations, Design Biennial, Barcelona
Projects
No Things
Naked Couch
White Plastic Garden Chair
Tactile Tape
How Are You?
Affiliations, 1997-2005
Studio Job, B-Architecten; Antwerp
Bless, Nuesslein; Berlin
Inflate, Landor; London
Project:
Naked Couch, Tina Roeder
Artist Tina Roeder endeavours to make us look at objects with new and different eyes. Naked Couch, her version of a doctor’s examining table, ...
Interview:
An Uncomfortable Examination
Tina Roeder, Naked Couch
What is the relationship between anonymous objects and intimacy? This question was the starting point for Naked Couch, a doctor’s examining ...