Ana Tamayo


STATEMENT 2022

ES

Mi trabajo artístico se sitúa en las fronteras y las juntas de prácticas alternativas en construcción. El contexto es la era del antropoceno y el feminismo. El trabajo de campo es esencial en mi obra, seguido de documentos (fotos, sonidos y vídeos) de los que surgen signos, símbolos e iconografía. A partir de ahí, se crea una narrativa entre documento y ficción.

Mi investigación artística gira en torno a la fotografía, pero cruza todas las fronteras, ya sean plásticas, performativas, videográficas, geográficas o discursivas, para crear una obra proteica. A menudo vuelvo a mis fotografías, que se convierten en instalaciones, estableciendo así una relación entre la bi y tridimensionalidad. La imagen es alterada, duplicada, escenificada, dibujada,pintada, convirtiéndose en otro objeto. El espectador se enfrenta a formas y puntos de vista en los que las escalas, las cantidades y las posiciones transgreden el espacio expositivo.

Actualmente, mi trabajo artístico se centra en la fotografía plástica, queriendo habitar los límites entre la fotografía de performance, el dibujo, el objeto y la escritura. Hoy exploro los documentos de ciencia ficción feminista como medio para activar imaginarios utópicos a través de cuerpos queer.


FR

Mon travail artistique se trouve dans les frontières et les jointures des pratiques alternatives en construction. Le contexte est l’ère de l’anthropocène et le féminisme. La quête sur le terrain est essentielle dans mon travail, suivie de documents (photos, sons et vidéos) d'où émergent des signes, des symboles et une iconographie. À partir de là, un récit entre document et fiction est crée.

Ma recherche artistique gravite autour de la photographie, mais traverse toutes les frontières, qu'elles soient plastiques, performatives, vidéographiques, géographiques ou discursives, pour créer une œuvre protéiforme. Je reviens souvent à mes photographies qui deviennent des installations, établissant ainsi une relation entre la bidimensionnalité et la tridimensionnalité. L'image est altérée, doublée, mise en scène, peinte, devenue un autre objet. Le spectateur est confronté à des formes et des points de vue dans lesquels les échelles, les quantités et les positions transgressent l’espace d’exposition.

Actuellement, mon travail artistique porte sur la photographie plasticienne voulant habiter les frontières entre photographie de performance, dessin, objet et écriture. Aujourd’hui, j’explore des documents de science-fiction féministes comme un moyen d’activation d’imaginaires utopiques à travers les corps queer.


IN

My art work is found in the borders and joints of alternative practices under construction. The context is the anthropocene era and feminism. Field research is essential in my work, followed by documents (photos, sounds and videos) from which signs, symbols and iconography emerge. From there, a narrative between document and fiction is created.

My artistic research revolves around photography, but crosses all boundaries, whether they are plastic, performative, videographic, geographical or discursive, to create a protean work. I often return to my photographs which become installations, establishing a relationship between two-dimensionality and three-dimensionality. The image is altered, doubled, staged, painted, becoming another object. The viewer is confronted with forms and points of view in which scales, quantities and positions transgress the exhibition space.

Currently, my artistic work focuses on plastic photography, wanting to inhabit the boundaries between performance photography, drawing, object and writing. Today, I explore feminist science fiction documents as a means of activating utopian imaginaries through queer bodies.



Photo d’atelier par Luca Nicolao, au 6b, 2019


           


This series of photographs and objects that becomes an installation are the first two parts of the Queer Constellation. The black and white printed photographs are made from queer fetish objects, in a performative gesture of surveying intimate and public places. The images are intervened with words. There emerges a language of Abya Yala's intersectional feminism. One could say a queer and anti-racist eco feminism.
On the other hand, photographs of performances with starry backgrounds are used as metaphors. On the one hand this re-situates the human in a geological and cosmic scale, on the other hand it shows different constellations or worlds co-inhabiting together. A world that contains many worlds as the Zapatistas say.

This installation around a feminist SF tells the utopia of a queer community, propelled by the global south, which seeks autonomy of its food and health and does not want to reproduce the society of today. It is in search of in search of ancestral and contemporary body memories and ecological knowledge to redefine their territories and boundaries in different parts of the world and in cyber space. This series is imagined as a diversity of constellations where | address issues such as care through medicinal plants, emotional digestion, dancing as a way of performing bodily and self-care tools; gender deconstruction, alternative thoughts and writings.
 
In this context | program different laboratories and collective workshops that allow the movement of bodies and thoughts, the conversation and the construction of multiple points of view, in collaborative care environments. Some of these collective and individual photographs are the result of invitations and the setting up of the workshop "Pelvica": danced ritual, medicinal plants, drawing and automatic writing & collective performance photography. These laboratories were activated in Colombia, with the help of the traversées grant, at the Tour Mercuriales in Bagnolet within Plateau Urbain and at the Cité Internationale des Arts, as a laureate of the Fondation Carasso. This series is currently in post-production, is open and will continue.




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Ana Tamayo, Adagp, 2024