Tamara Jacquin

Statement

Lives and works in Madrid, ES

My interdisciplinary practice involves sculpture, painting, printmaking, textile, video and photography. My process is additive, which means I work in layers, and in each layer I use a new medium, thus increasing the complexity of the piece. I always start with a photograph, which I work on digitally and then transfer to fabric or wood.

In my recent artwork, I seek a dialogue between two worlds by using ancient everyday objects, which are loaded with history, interweaving them with contemporary textures and vibrant colors. By putting these objects in current context, I offer new insights linking the past with our contemporaneity to reflect on the different meanings that things had and will have over time.

GlogauAIR Project

In ‘Poetics of the Ordinary,’ I bring exquisite porcelain objects from the 17th to the 19th centuries, and place them in a modern context by juxtaposing them with everyday objects from our time. Inspired by the collections of the Kunstgewerbemuseum and the Ethnologisches Museum, I seek to connect with the memories and imaginations that these objects evoke.

Through photography and mixed media techniques like transfer, drawing and painting on wood, I merge the antique with the present, the real with the representation, and mass production with the unique and unrepeatable. The result is an artwork characterized by bold and striking colors that invite viewers to engage in a dialogue between its history and the present.

Installation and Sculpture

CV Summary

Education (selection)

• 2017 MFA, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, ES
• 2010 Bachelor of Architecture, Valparaíso University, Valparaíso, CL

Solo Exhibitions

• 2021 To feel lonely you don’t need to run away to the forest, curator Gabino Busto Hevia, Eduardo Úrculo Municipal Art Gallery of Langreo, Langreo, ES (catalogue)
• 2021 A pending conversation, two solo show with Daniel Schweitzer, Navel Art, Madrid, ES
• 2019 Somewhere between up and down, Alfama Madrid, Madrid, ES
• 2019 Here and Gone, two solo show with Christopher Kanyusik, 3Quarters, Atenas, GR
• 2017 The Beagle’s long voyage, curator Joan Feliu Franch, two solo show with MasauR, ECO Les Aules, Castellón, ES (catalogue)
• 2016 Body Architectures, curator Marisol Salanova, Aravaca Cultural Center, Madrid, ES (catalogue)

Group Exhibitions (selection)

• 2022 Feminart, Est-art Space Gallery, Alcobendas, ES (catalogue)
• 2021 Construction time again, Est-art Space Gallery, Alcobendas, ES
• 2020 EAC 2020, XX Contemporary Art Encounter Competition, Sala Sampere, University of Alicante Museum Alicante, ES (catalogue)
• 2020 XXXVI Exhibition of young art in La Rioja, ESDIR exhibition space, Logroño, ES (catalogue)
• 2019 Sculto Contemporary Sculpture Art Fair, curator AliciaVentura Bordes, Inma Prieto, Rogelio López Cuenca, Galería Est-Art Space, Logroño, ES (catalogue)
• 2019 VII Mardel Visual Arts Award 2019, Centre del Carme museum,Valencia, ES (catalogue)
• 2019 Reset Unsettling Flesh Layers, curator Patricia Brien, Alte Handelsschule, Leipzig, DE
• 2019 3rd Biennale di Genova – International Contemporary Art Exhibition, curator Mario Napoli, Flavia Motolese, Genova, IT (catalogue)

Award and grants (selection)

• 2020 Art Nalón Award 2020, Langreo, ES
• 2019 Sculpture-Network Award, Sculto Contemporary Sculpture Fair, Logroño, ES
• 2019 Residency abroad for young artists in the field of visual arts Grant, Madrid Regional Government, ES
• 2017 Casa de Velázquez Specific Aid Grant, Casa de Velázquez, Madrid, ES
• 2016 Culture Funds for Circulation, FONDART, Chile Govermment, CL
• 2015 Production Award, Bilbao Art Foundation, Bilbao, ES

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