Tamara Jacquin

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Projects
  • Poetics of the Ordinary, 2023-2024
    • Welcome Home
    • Furniture
    • Porcelain Study
  • Dreaming the woods, 2019-2020
  • I just came to see the garden, 2019-2020
  • Spectres, 2017-2021
  • Body Architectures, 2014-2016
  • Enlaces (Connections), 2013-2014
Shelters
  • Stitch the house, 2021
  • I just came to see the garden, 2019
  • Precarious shelter, 2018
  • Ephemeral shelter, 2018-2019
  • Nomadic shelter, 2016
  • Videoart
    • Urdidora silvestre, 2021
    • Roots, 2021
    • Breathing forest, 2020-2021
    • Remember, 2019
    • Animals in the woods, 2019
    • Words fail me, 2017
  • Publications
    • To feel lonely you don't need to run away to the forest, 2021
    • Dialogues on a dark night , 2017
    • Spectres, 2017
    • Body Architectures, 2016
Nombre de la Exposición 1

A quiet place, 2021. Instalación desmontable: madera, clavos, tornillos y lana roja, 150 x 180 x 155 cm.
En Feminart, Est-Art Space, Madrid, España, 2023.

This series begins with the construction of a shelter made of recycled wood and nails. This sculpture, called A quiet place, represents the precarious construction as a metaphor for the dysfunctional home. The planes of the house are not joined together, but I stitch the house together by sewing the cracks with red wool to keep it standing. Sewing is an act of resistance. I move the shelter to different urban locations and photograph my body interacting with the piece. This is the origin of the series, Stitch the house .

Stitch the house speaks about the relationship of the woman with the home, the family, the partner and the house. The body dialogues with this neglected architectural space in settings that often go unnoticed by the passer-by, they are anonymous and forgotten places. This reflects the loneliness of broken homes, which nobody sees, but which happen around hundreds of people. The photographs are transferred onto wood and intervened with red embroidery thread. When everything collapses, the house resists. Like a poetic act, the thread stitches the cracks in the house and repairs that which was once broken or that abandonment that was never meant to be.

Finally, Silhouettes, with the same poetics. On photographs of idyllic natural landscapes transferred onto wood, the silhouette of a shelter or house is stitched. These silhouettes correspond to profiles of original constructions and basic survival shelters.

Nombre de la Exposición 1

Stitch the house, 2021. Series of 6 pieces, transfer on plywood and intervention with red embroidery thread, 47 x 34 x 6 cm each.

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Stitch the house I, 2021. Transfer on plywood and intervention with red embroidery thread, 47 x 34 x 6 cm.

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Stitch the house II, 2021. Transfer on plywood and intervention with red embroidery thread, 47 x 34 x 6 cm.

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Stitch the house III, 2021. Transfer on plywood and intervention with red embroidery thread, 47 x 34 x 6 cm.

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Stitch the house IV, 2021. Transfer on plywood and intervention with red embroidery thread, 47 x 34 x 6 cm.

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Stitch the house V, 2021. Transfer on plywood and intervention with red embroidery thread, 47 x 34 x 6 cm.

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Stitch the house VI, 2021. Transfer on plywood and intervention with red embroidery thread, 47 x 34 x 6 cm.

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Silhouettes, 2021. Series of 4 pieces, transfer on plywood and intervention with red embroidery thread, 47 x 34 x 6 cm each.

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Silhouettes I, 2021. Transfer on plywood and intervention with red embroidery thread, 47 x 34 x 6 cm.

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Silhouettes II, 2021. Transfer on plywood and intervention with red embroidery thread, 47 x 34 x 6 cm.

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Silhouettes III, 2021. Transfer on plywood and intervention with red embroidery thread, 47 x 34 x 6 cm.

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Silhouettes IV, 2021. Transfer on plywood and intervention with red embroidery thread, 47 x 34 x 6 cm.