Tales Without Times - The Poetry of Storytelling, co-organized by Galerie Zink and Galerie Bao, exhibition view, 2025, Galerie Zink Waldkirchen. Photo: Erich Spahn, courtesy of Galerie Zink.
Tales Without Time - The Poetry of Story Telling, is a group exhibition that explores storytelling as a vessel for memory, myth, and cultural identity. Marking the first collaboration between Galerie Zink (Waldkirchen) and Galerie BAO (Paris), the exhibition brings together Rosilene Luduvico, Thao Nguyen Phan, Camila Rodríguez Triana, and Trương Công Tùng—four international artists whose practices span film, installation, painting, and textile art. Together, they offer sensorial and poetic responses to the complexities of time, creating works that do not merely narrate, but unfold, resonate, and echo.
Each artist in Tales Without Time reimagines narrative as a fluid and living form—deeply embodied, often fragmented, and resistant to linear progression. These stories grow from the land, from silence, from threads passed down through generations. They hold space for ancestral memory, ecological consciousness, and mythic imagination—recasting time as cyclical, layered, and deeply felt.
Curated by : Le Thien-Bao and Michael Zink
Text by: Justine Daquin*
* Justine Daquin has been working as a curator since 2018. In 2019, she coordinated the first architecture and landscape biennial in Versailles under the direction of Djamel Klouche and from 2018 to 2021, together with her collective Calypso36°21, she initiated and developed the traveling curatorial research program Out.of.the.blue.map that was inaugurated in Marseille for Manifesta13. Thanks to her research, Justine was selected as one of the residents of Tba21’s Ocean Space (2021), of Fluxus Art Project (2022), was invited to speak at Cove Park for COP26 in Glasgow (2021) and was one of the six first curators of the 'bureau des penseurs' at POUSH (2022-23). Justine joined Art Explora in 2023 and is now the Head of Artistic programs.
