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Born in 1996 in Zwolle, Netherlands, Tamara Stoffers studied fine art at the Academy Minerva<\/a><\/span> in Groningen, Netherlands. Additionally, she frequented courses at the Klassieke Academie<\/a><\/span>. Since her graduation in 2017, she participated in several group exhibitions in Amsterdam and Rotterdam, but also abroad in Brussels (Belgium), London (England) and Stockholm (Sweden). Her first solo exhibition \u201cThe New Past\u201d was at The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography<\/a><\/span> in Moscow in 2019.<\/p>\n

The exhibition consisted of collages composed of photos found in old books about the Soviet Union. The oeuvres are grouped in series named after the publishing year of the initial book. One of them is our artwork of the month April 2019<\/a><\/span> \u201cVoronezh\u201d. Tamara\u2019s creative process is strictly analogue in its basis. She literally cuts the single elements out of their context and composes them to a new oeuvre. Only afterwards, she scans the completed collage to print it in different sizes and limited editions.<\/p>\n

Even though born after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Tamara is fascinated by this disappeared culture, with its typical visual language. At the age of 18, she started to collect objects connected to the era of the USSR. Later, in 2015\/16, she visited the exhibition \u201cSoviet Design 1950 \u2013 1980\u201d in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Here she saw furniture, textiles, domestic appliances and utensils, toys, posters and extensive archive material. Inspired by the atmosphere and shapes of the objects, she started to incorporate it into her artistic practice. Examples are the above-mentioned collages, where she playfully creates new, often surrealistic situations. In doing so, she approaches a for her incomprehensible past, which becomes more accessible to her by this process. Other rapprochements are sculptural cachepots in form of a Lenin bust. In 2021, she approached social realism also in painting. Her \u201cPickle Factory\u201d, which she announced as a seemingly accurate Soviet painting of Socialist Realism from the 1960s is our artwork of the month in December 2021<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Besides new compositions from existing photographs, Tamara dabbles in analogue photography. For example, she documented and digested her obliged leave and the following deconstruction of the apartment building where she used to live for two years. One of the pictures of the resulting series \u201cThe Home we lost\u201d is our artwork of the month February 2024<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Currently, two solo exhibitions are scheduled for 2024: from February 9th until February 22nd \u201cKompromat\u201d is on view in the Langhuis in Zwolle<\/span><\/a>, Netherlands and \u201cThe street is our palette\u201d will start on the 8th of March in the Museum Erarta<\/span>, Saint-Petersburg<\/span><\/a>, Russia. Moreover, her works are presented in the photo book \u201cFresh Eyes<\/a><\/span>\u201d in this years\u2019 edition in the category conceptual.<\/p>\n

Tamara lives and works in Deventer, Netherlands.<\/p>\n

www.tamarastoffers.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Artwork of the Month \/ February 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n