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what is the fascinating appropriated world of Zoé Tati?:

A playground for lost and found. Forgotten footage compiled and curated.

Brought from the private sphere to the public gaze; I re-imagined them, name, touch and tag them. The practice is not about a restorative vision of history, but rather, about how we are all participants in creating and, in the end, receiving, the world around us.

NACTUS from latin nanciscor = obtained by chance, is founded in 1996 by me Zoé Tati.

how to load a Zoé Tati art work?

On the one hand, the works have the dashed-off look and feel of pop culture-inflected postmodernism, inspired by the radical innovations of Dada and French Surrealism. On the other hand, at their heart is a kind of high Romantic yearning for wholeness: In a sense the works are simply about being unable to give up that longing. At the center of a Zoé Tati work isn’t usually a subject (à la Galina Walls) but a feeling (à la Jackson Pollock). That feeling is conjured up by the interplay between aesthetic conviction and amiably bland bewilderment; amid all the flotsam and jetsam of everyday life is the enduring hope that, as she puts it, “at last I shall see my family complete.” The best thing to do, then, is not to try to understand the work but to try to take pleasure from their arrangement, the way you feel when you’re just walking around. It’s only then, for some viewers, that the meaning begins to leak through.

indeed! and as Zoé Tati sayz and recommendz:

zig-zag through the posts : the gaze of Zoé Tati.

and on z-side: Zoé Tati’s relevant z’s: Zelig and Zbigniew

another z full of interesting guizez, mysteriez and surfacez…seen from the other side…
a spectacular vizion to explore!
thankz Zoé!