Mar 04, 2026 Exhibition

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

Banks Violette at TICK TACK, Antwerp. A site-specific installation unfolding across architecture, sound and suspended form

Banks Violette - Wish You Were Here, 2026 Site-specific installation view TICK TACK, Antwerp - Photo: Matěj Doležel - Courtesy of the artist and TICK TACK

Artists: Banks Violette
Exhibition: Wish You Were Here
Venue: TICK TACK
City: Antwerp, Belgium
Dates: 23 January – 21 March 2026
Sound Work: Stephen O’Malley
Curated by: Maria Abramenko
Photography: Matěj Doležel

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 installing and lighting Untitled (Discoball) during the build-up of Wish You Were Here at TICK TACK, Antwerp. The artist kneels beside a mirrored sphere ignited with flame inside the gallery space. — **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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