Tyler Eash approaches art in a post-disciplinary manner, integrating performance, sculpture, drawing, painting, film, music, and poetry to explore and embody different modes of existence. Their practice blurs the lines between confession, fact, and fiction, merging these elements into a constellation of visual artifacts, texts, and performative events. Responding to the erasure of personal history, ancestral culture, and identity, Eash engages with the concept of selfhood as a medium, using imagination as a site of autonomy and resilience. Eash’s work positions the body as both a document and a vessel, functioning as an avatar that negotiates the desires of a post-capitalist, post-colonial, and post-gender identity. Through this approach, they establish a dialogue between their queer, rural, Indigenous American and Irish heritage and the structures of Anglo-colonial “high culture.” Each creation becomes a bridge between personal and collective histories, using the material and immaterial to investigate the intersections of identity, sovereignty, and cultural memory, while asserting a profound reclamation of space, narrative, and self-expression. ...
NıCOLETTı is a London-based gallery committed to supporting the development of emerging artists. Founded in 2018 as an itinerant curatorial project, the gallery opened its first permanent space in 2019.
NıCOLETTı’s programme focuses on researching and supporting emerging artists in the realization of institutional projects and museum presentations. Many of the artists represented by the gallery have held their first UK solo exhibition at NıCOLETTı and have subsequently exhibited in prominent international institutions and biennials. The gallery presents a diverse range of conceptually-driven practices, with a particular emphasis on how aesthetics can offer new perspectives on pressing socio-political issues. ...
