“Black Magic (screensaver edition)”
Tintin Cooper
13 Jan → 28 Feb 2024
Artist Presentation, 17 Feb, 4 – 5 am
Tintin Cooper presents Black Magic (screensaver version) in the West Space Window, coinciding with her residency in the West Space Studio.
Zinedine Zidane, best known for head-butting an opponent, has spurned countless memes himself and is widely known online as the ‘magician’ with ‘black magic powers’ because of his immense and unexplainable skill. Countless internet images have been spawned from him, including the artists' own, which sits comfortably alongside meme culture.
Black Magic deconstructs these memes, imagining a new story of Zidane’s life – from his black magic powers and head-butting incident to being comfortably up at home.
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Tintin Cooper is on residency at West Space in January and February 2024 as part of Creative Australia's Debra Porch Award: Visual Arts Residency.
Tintin Cooper: On Sport, Memes and Power, Saturday 17 February, 3 → 4pm.
Tintin Cooper is an artist based between Bangkok, Thailand and Berlin, Germany. Her practice spans image and video appropriations, light works, painting on ceramic tiles and sculpture. Her work appropriates pop culture images and memes (popular themes include football, selfdefense, the army and war, yoga and pseudo-spirituality fads), which are then deconstructed across various media. Tintin has shown across the Tate Britain, Transmediale, Sydney Biennial and Bangkok Biennial, and her work is held in the Staedel Museum collection. In 2024, Tintin Cooper was on residency with West Space as part of Creative Australia's Debra Porch Award.