“My work is related to the human body; more specifically, I explore the notion of a portrait in a broad sense, inquiring into the details of the body and its relationship with objects of diverse origins.
Regarding the technical decisions, I work with digital photography, lending special attention to the assembly of the scene, emphasizing the theatrical dimension of the object/subject photographed as to the different stages of postproduction.
I am currently deepening in “producing” portraits that have a cross of looks, between the spectator and the portrayed, strong looks or even the denial of the look towards the spectator, imagining scenes that overcome the notion of “the real” in a sense strict.
I am interested in the evocative power of the gesture, the provocation of the gaze, and the exaltation of expression.
The marked contrast between lights and shadows, the use of specific colors, or the characters’ postures often refer to the history of art, referencing the classic pillars of the Baroque.”
Finalist at the International Open Call Competition. A collaboration of Florence Biennale, Art Market Magazine, and Lens Magazine.
Series: Fragilidad Suspendida
Fragilidad Suspendida. 2017 (Fragility Suspended)
In this project, I explore the notion of an expanded portrait; I investigate beyond the subject portrayed, reaching a body’s disappearance, a body without flesh, a fold in space. These, in turn, spaces included as intimate testimonies of the relationship between the subject and its environment, nature, and everyday life. A landscape with symbolic character, forcing the limits between reality, perception, and representation, allows us to reflect on the contemporary concept of intimate landscape.
The nostalgia of being a foreigner and the fabrics found in a closet in an abandoned house play simultaneously with the multiplicity of ways of inhabiting an empty space, leading to the possibility of working their correlate from the idea of body-absence-woman-space.
In this series, I put tension on the relationship between portraits, generally female with cloths, turbans, veils, and rags.
The objects are repeated in different ways, dialoguing with the body or being stripped, empty and lonely. The importance of how the different folds of cloth can connote a certain spiritual, solemn, and sacred dimension; in what way from still life the cloth functions as a body and the body as a container.
The name of the series refers to fragility not as a weakness but as sensitivity that must be suspended/stopped to move forward. Despite the body being in pieces or hidden, it must also have a solid and defiant attitude.
Wassaf Tamara
“I am interested in the evocative power of the gesture, the provocation of the gaze, and the exaltation of expression.
The marked contrast between lights and shadows, the use of specific colors, or the characters’ postures often refer to the history of art, referencing the classic pillars of the Baroque.”
– Tamara Wassaf
Tamara Wassaf was born in San Juan, Argentina. At the age of sixteen, she began her interest in photography as an autodidact, later obtaining her bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts; since then, she has done artistic works exhibited nationally and internationally.
She has been awarded prizes, scholarships with prestigious artists such as Eugenio Recuenco (Spain) and Marcos Lopez (Argentina). Her work is featured in private collections, and Leading museums around the world have acquisition her work.
Tamara has been working as a photographer, pushing the limits between fashion and artistic photography.
Her passion for painting and her attentive gaze make each of her series features and express different references to the history of painting.
She established a photography group with her partner Dante Forconesi, “Estudio a Pedal,” specializing in fashion and photojournalism, and she also founded the VLOV magazine. Currently, she lives and works in Madrid.
Series: Deméter
She is the Greek Goddess of agriculture, pure nourishment of the green and young earth, the life-giving cycle of life and death. She is revered as the “bearer of the seasons.”
In this series of photos, she appears with a bandage that alludes to damaged nature. Her attitude, sometimes defeated and sometimes defiant reminds us of changes in the weather her reactions. It is also surrounded by elements related to nature and its connection with the passage of time, such as rust, marble, and dried and green flowers.
This series aims to reflect a weak, delicate goddess but at the same time strong and resistant.
“…Sad Demeter had in a single night
Removed her sombre garments! and mine eyes,
Beheld a ‘broidered mantle in pale dyes
Thrown o’er her throbbing bosom.
Sweet and clear…”
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919)
