From Hope to Hunger
June 9-23, 2023

Yellow Tulip, Seyahatnâme. Constantinople, Ottoman Empire, 1630s.

The yellow tulip symbolizes hope and new beginnings.

Evliya Çelebi was a 17th-century Ottoman traveler who wrote a ten-volume travelogue, Seyahatnâme. The volumes detail his travels throughout the Ottoman Empire and beyond. The Evliya Çelebi’s Travelogues series uses AI to recreate passages from his travels.

He describes the Ottoman court’s vast gardens as “Delightful as the garden of Irem, planted with twenty thousand cypresses, planes, weeping-willows, thuyas, pines, and box-trees, and among them many hundred thousands of fruit trees, forming an aviary and tulip-parterre, which to this day may be compared to the garden of the Genii (Jin).”

Joelle McTigue

As an interdisciplinary artist working with photography and design, I explore how power dynamics and influences of identity flatten, amplify, and distort communal narratives and histories. By altering my street photography with mathematical influence, I encapsulate the idea of historical and cultural shifts while leaving documentative remnants.

My work is a part of the permanent Rubell Family Collection, The John Paul Getty III-founded Siena Art Institute Library Collection, and the NFT NYC 2022 Diversity of NFTs Art Collection. I currently live and work in Montenegro.

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Exhibitions & News

Represented by Artpoint in Paris
Hope to Hunger Fundraiser for Compassion
The Boca Raton NFT Museum
The Boca Raton NFT Museum
NFT Biennial
NFT Biennial: Istanbul, LA, Bogota, London, Brussels, Amsterdam, Tokyo, & Berlin
NFT NYC 2023
NFT NYC 2023 Artist Community Showcase
SHILLR Mobile Gallery During Art Basel Miami
SHILLR Mobile Gallery during Art Basel Miami
Loop Art Critique
Loop Art Critique
ArtCrush Project in Ghent, Belgium
Utopin Dystopa in Kochi, India
INTERSECT Art + Blockchain Meetup during NFT London at ICA
INTERSECT Art + Blockchain at the ICA during NFT London
Featured Creator Drop on 1stDibs
Featured Creator on 1stDibs during NFT NYC
NFTBerlin
NFTBerlin The New Gestalt
Miami NFT Con
NFT Con Into the Metaverse
Cooltzine Vol 2 during Photo London
Cooltzine Vol.2, in Belgrade, Sofia, and Stour Space during Photo London
Art on Paper New York
Art on Paper during Armory
Ooga Booga #2 at 356 S. Mission Road with ForYourArt and Biblioteca Alumnos47, Artists’ Books and Cookies, Los Angeles, CA
Ooga Booga #2 at 356 S. Mission Road with ForYourArt and Biblioteca Alumnos47
Photo LA
Photo LA
Brighton Photo Fringe
Brighton Photo Fringe
PhotoIreland
PhotoIreland
Bridge Art Fair, A Map of the World, New York, NY
Bridge Art Fair during Armory

work in the Collection of

rubell family collection
Rubell Family Collection
siena art institute collection
The John Paul Getty III Founded Siena Art Institute Library Collection
NFT NYC
NFT NYC

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