> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.catapult-platform.art/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Banks Violette - Wish You Were Here - TICK TACK, Antwerp - URL: https://www.catapult-platform.art/banks-violette-wish-you-were-here-tick-tack-antwerp/ - Published: 2026-03-04T10:21:22.000Z - Updated: 2026-03-20T09:32:20.000Z - Description: Banks Violette at TICK TACK, Antwerp. A site-specific installation unfolding across architecture, sound and suspended form - Author: Dominique Catherina Foertig - Tags: Exhibition --- **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](https://ticktack.be/?ref=catapult-platform.art) | [Banks Violette IG](https://www.instagram.com/%5F%5Fbanksviolette/?ref=catapult-platform.art) | [Submit](https://www.catapult-platform.art/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 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.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/banks-violette--artist.webp) ****Banks Violette** *\- Wish You Were Here*, 2026 - Build-up view, TICK TACK, Antwerp ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/tick-tack--antwerp.webp) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/tick-tack--current-exhibition.webp) ****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 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/tick-tack-gallery-antwerp.webp) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/banks-violette-1.webp) ****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. [**Instagram Tick Tack** ](https://www.instagram.com/ticktack.be/?ref=catapult-platform.art) [**Instagram Banks Violette**](https://www.instagram.com/banks%5Fviolette%5F616/?ref=catapult-platform.art) --- ## Exhibition View: ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/banks-violette-at-tick-tack-antwerp-1.webp) 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 TACK ![Installation view of Banks Violette’s video work Untitled (Universal Pictures), 2026, shown in a darkened brick-walled space at TICK TACK, Antwerp, featuring a projected black-and-white moving image.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/banks-violette--catapult-munchies-art-club.webp) ****Banks Violette** *Untitled (Universal Pictures)*, 2026 Video, in collaboration with ZEV DEANS - Installation view, ****TICK TACK, Antwerp** \- Courtesy of the artist and TICK TACK ![Video still from Banks Violette’s Untitled (Universal Pictures), 2026, showing a monochrome abstract image with a central spherical form surrounded by light fragments.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/tick-tack--art-gallery.webp) ****Banks Violette** *\- Untitled (Universal Pictures)*, 2026 - Video, in collaboration with ZEV DEANS - Video still - Courtesy of the artist and TICK TACK ![banks violette, artist](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/banks-violette.webp) ![Curated by: Maria Abramenko tick tack Antwerp , exhibition view banks violette](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/banks-violette-artist.webp) ****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 TACK ![Detail view of Banks Violette’s Untitled (Discoball), 2026, showing a mirrored sphere ignited with flame and attached to a metal chain inside the gallery space.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/banks-violette--installation.webp) ****Banks Violette** *Untitled (Discoball)*, 2026 Metal, mirror, steel, salt, gas, chain, fire Diameter 55 cm - Detail view - Courtesy of the artist and TICK TACK ![banks violette, installation, tick tack Antwerp ](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/tick-tack-antwerp--banks-violette.webp) Installation 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 ![banks violette](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/tick-tack-current.webp) Banks 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 TACK ![tick tack Antwerp installation view banks violette - Sound Work: Stephen O’Malley Curated by: Maria Abramenko](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/tick-tack-gallery.webp) ****Banks Violette**, **Wish You Were Here*, 2026, exhibition view, TICK TACK, Antwerp - Courtesy of the artist and TICK TACK ![tick tack, Antwerp, exhibition](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/banks-violette--exhibition.webp) ****TICK TACK, Antwerp - Banks Violette** *\- Wish You Were Here*, 2026 Exhibition view - Courtesy of the artist and TICK TACK ![banks violette, installation ](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/banks-violette--tick-tack--gallery--antwerp-1.webp) Installation 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 --- ## Related Readings: [Artist in Focus](https://www.catapult-platform.art/artist-in-focus/) ## Ruo-Hsin Wu: Floating in the Dark [Read More](https://www.catapult-platform.art/ruo-hsin-wu-floating-in-the-dark/) [Exhibition](https://www.catapult-platform.art/exhibition/) ## Villa Bernasconi: Stitches – A Haunted House and Other Ghost Stories [Read More](https://www.catapult-platform.art/villa-bernasconi-stitches-haunted-house-ghost-stories/) [Interview](https://www.catapult-platform.art/artist-interviews/) ## Hetty Douglas on Emotion, Abstraction, and Raw Material [Read More](https://www.catapult-platform.art/hetty-douglas/)