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Light as a Feather
featuring works by
Henar Iglesias
Bianca Severijns
May 10 - June 29, 2025
TINT is pleased to announce Light as a Feather, featuring works by Henar Iglesias and Bianca Severijns. Iglesias and Severijns use the lightest of materials, feathers and paper, respectively, to create abstract works that interweave personal histories with inspiration from nature, mathematics, history, and social issues. Technique plays an important role in both artists’ works, in which the meticulousness of their crafts shines through. Iglesias revives Mesoamerican feather art with a contemporary twist, while Severijns creates her own methodology using hand torn paper pieces. TINT Gallery is thrilled to host both of these artists making their US debut.
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Severijns creates her multifaceted, striking artworks by continuously exploring the paper medium. Rooted in a multicultural background, her art explores themes of displacement, identity, and migration that stem from personal narratives, as well as nature’s cycles. With the hope of starting anew, Severijns' art invites reflection on our shared world.
In her early 20’s, Iglesias discovered Mesoamerican feather art, a practice that intertwines art with sacred symbolism. She was fascinated by the technical skill of the amantecas (skilled artists capable of capturing the desires and longings of the human heart in each piece), a mastery that has never ceased to inspire and fuel her desire to explore the infinite aesthetic and artistic possibilities of feathers.
Severijns’ self-developed manipulating paper techniques are based on layering, merging, and weaving hundreds of small, hand-torn paper pieces into sculptural tapestries, murals, reliefs, and three-dimensional objects. The repetitive act of tearing paper creates a rugged, rough finish on each piece, emulating life itself with all its beauty and harshness, representing life’s imperfections.
Iglesias’ passion has been to revitalize forgotten techniques of feather art from different cultures, infusing them with a distinctly contemporary aesthetic influenced by her mathematical background, having studied mathematics at University.
Immersing herself in these cultures allowed her to discover a desire to bring to our present day not only a part of their cosmogony but also their vision of the relationship between humans and nature, as well as their vision of the most exquisite luxury.