Tamara Jacquin

Her artistic research focuses on the body, landscape and cultural traditions. In part of her projects she speaks from the body. Of what happens inside and also of what happens outside. She understands the body as perception, memory, movement and presence. It is the space where things happen and a place of resistance. Inspired by her biography she creates performative images that explore notions of identity, belonging and normative social influences. These images seek to intimately engage with the audience.  Another part of her projects studies how the body builds the landscape from memory. She uses the remembered landscape to (re)connect with Nature. The memory does not only come from her memory but from past generations that inhabit her. In the same way she thinks that the viewer completes the work with his or her own memories. By creating places where the public is confronted with the landscape she seeks to evoke the memory of sublime experiences such as feeling the wind, the trees, the leaves, the meadow, the mountains, the water or the stone. In her latest projects she examines cultural traces of the past infiltrated into our contemporary society and how these have been resignified over time and history. Generally in her production she adopts different languages to build a subtle and poetic approach that is reflected in materiality. She explores the language of sculpture and installation through photography, textiles, video, performance and poetry. She subverts disciplines by decontextualizing traditional supports in order to apply them to the construction of objects and structures, re-evaluating the bidemensionality of some media. In her work she is not interested in showing a hyper-reality that can be understood from the rational, instead she is interested in inciting dreams that evoke realities.