Artist Talk: Psychic Weather – Iffy Tillieu

Join Iffy Tillieu for a conversation about what drives her practice, the influences she draws on and the ideas taking shape in Psychic Weather. Together, we’ll look at how she works and the stories that connect her works at MINO.

Programme
Opening : 15:00-19:00
Artist Talk: 17:00

Free entrance, registration required (via ticket link)

Iffy has been making and exhibiting work in Belgium and internationally for many years. Over the past year, she has worked with mentors Pélagie Gbaguidi and Sorana Munsya to reflect on what drives her practice, trace her influences and how she wants to articulate her own vision.

She calls her approach Eclectic Fetishism, bringing together critical research, sensual materiality and archival resistance. She deliberately combines periods, textures, images, texts and autobiographical material. Working intuitively, she draws on family photographs, African histories and spiritual references, following her curiosity and making room for play.
Her use of “fetish” reclaims a historically reductive term and gives space to the emotional and spiritual significance that images and objects can carry.

Collage is central to her practice. She photographs her collages and develops them into paintings, while also working with textiles, fashion, lightboxes and objects. Colour is another point of departure. Applying it is a deeply felt, physical process through which she begins to build a composition.

At MINO, Iffy will experiment with how her works sit together, how they are shown, and the stories that connect them. Over the coming weeks, the artspace becomes her own microcosm, changing as the work develops.