Banks Violette - Wish You Were Here - TICK TACK, Antwerp

Artist: Banks Violette Title: Wish You Were Here Venue: TICK TACK, Antwerpen, Belgien Dates: 23. Januar – 21. März 2026 Sound: Stephen O’Malley Curator: Maria Abramenko Photography: Matěj Doležel Venue | Banks Violette IG | Submit

Absence as a Structural Condition

Wish You Were Here is a site-specific installation conceived for TICK TACK’s brutalist exhibition space in Antwerp , unfolding vertically across the building’s basement and upper floors.

The architecture is not a backdrop but an active condition, shaping how the work is encountered through levels, thresholds and compressed sightlines. From the street, the exhibition appears both exposed and withheld, suspended within the façade and held in tension by the structure itself.

“Absence is not a theme to be processed; it is the condition under which the exhibition operates.” -Maria Abramenko, Curator

Violette’s installation extends across floors, refusing immediate legibility. Illuminated letterforms, exposed wiring and provisional supports foreground construction rather than completion.

Banks Violette - Wish You Were Here , 2026 - Build-up view, TICK TACK, Antwerp

Banks Violette Untitled (The End) , 2026 MDF, aluminium, light bulbs, lacquer paint, wooden scaffold, electrical wiring The: 206 × 270 cm - End: 206 × 310 cm - Installation view, TICK TACK, Antwerp - Courtesy of the artist and TICK TACK

Banks Violette - Wish You Were Here , 2026 - Installation view, TICK TACK, Antwerp - Left: Untitled (Discoball) , 2026 Metal, mirror, steel, salt, gas, chain, fire - Diameter 55 cm - Right: Exterior view featuring Untitled (The End) , 2026 MDF, aluminium, light bulbs, lacquer paint, wooden scaffold, electrical wiring The: 206 × 270 cm - End: 206 × 310 cm - Courtesy of the artist and TICK TACK

A smashed disco ball rests like a residue of interrupted celebration, while cables, ballast and scaffolding remain visible, insisting on strain, duration and physical load. A continuous sound composition by Stephen O’Malley permeates the entire building, binding the architectural levels into a single experiential field.

Rather than resolving into narrative or symbolism, the exhibition operates as a condition. Forms persist without closure, actions continue without explanation. Movement through TICK TACK becomes a negotiation between presence and absence, visibility and obstruction.

Wish You Were Here positions the exhibition as a spatial situation to be entered, not a statement to be decoded.

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Exhibition View:

Installation view, TICK TACK, Antwerp Banks Violette Untitled (The End) , 2026MDF, aluminium, light bulbs, lacquer paint, wooden scaffold, electrical wiring The: 206 × 270 cm - End: 206 × 310 cm - Courtesy of the artist and TICK TACKBanks Violette Untitled (Universal Pictures) , 2026 Video, in collaboration with ZEV DEANS - Installation view, TICK TACK, Antwerp - Courtesy of the artist and TICK TACKBanks Violette - Untitled (Universal Pictures) , 2026 - Video, in collaboration with ZEV DEANS - Video still - Courtesy of the artist and TICK TACK Banks Violette -Wish You Were Here , 2026 - Installation view, TICK TACK, Antwerp - Foreground: Untitled (Discoball) , 2026 Metal, mirror, steel, salt, gas, chain, fire Diameter 55 cm - Background: Untitled (The End) , 2026 MDF, aluminium, light bulbs, lacquer paint, wooden scaffold, electrical wiring The: 206 × 270 cm - End: 206 × 310 cm - Courtesy of the artist and TICK TACKBanks Violette Untitled (Discoball) , 2026 Metal, mirror, steel, salt, gas, chain, fire Diameter 55 cm - Detail view - Courtesy of the artist and TICK TACKInstallation view (unlit), TICK TACK, Antwerp - Banks Violette Untitled (The End) , 2026 MDF, aluminium, light bulbs, lacquer paint, wooden scaffold, electrical wiring The: 206 × 270 cm - Courtesy of the artist and TICK TACKBanks Violette, Untitled (The End), 2026, mdf, aluminium, light bulbs, lacquer paint, wooden scaffold, electrical wiring, The: 206 x 270 cm, End: 206 x 310 cm - Exhibition Wish You Were Here , 2026 Exhibition view - Courtesy of the artist and TICK TACKBanks Violette , Wish You Were Here , 2026, exhibition view, TICK TACK, Antwerp - Courtesy of the artist and TICK TACKTICK TACK, Antwerp - Banks Violette - Wish You Were Here , 2026 Exhibition view - Courtesy of the artist and TICK TACKInstallation view (unlit), TICK TACK, Antwerp - Banks Violette Untitled (The End) , 2026 MDF, aluminium, light bulbs, lacquer paint, wooden scaffold, electrical wiring The: 206 × 270 cm - Courtesy of the artist and TICK TACK

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