TANs Art is a work based on workshops with participants during the long Covid-19 lockdowns. The aim was to identify 5 important things in life, select one of them and symbolically design an object out of paper. The artist selected a section of a workshop result (with the consent of the participant, of course), painted it, then used Photoshop to break it down into 42 individual parts and cut them out. The memory consists of individual pieces, like a tangram, a mosaic that is randomly arranged and put together as in the case of dementia.
The title TANs originally derives from an association with the famous TANGRAM, with the intention that these different parts could be used to create random shapes like the Dadaists, which could be helpful not only for the artists as a creative impulse, but also for those affected by dementia, because this is not about laying out 'right' and 'wrong', but about the joy of associatively laying out shapes. TANs Art is therefore not related to mathematical puzzles. Kaprow (1993, 69), who describes such an unrestricted impulse in experimental art as " a free-for-all meaning nothing and everything ", is more appropriate.