TAMARA BARRAGE

Tamara Barrage is a Lebanese artist and designer that engages in exploring the tactile and sensorial characteristics of various materials. Using an array of experimental techniques, Barrage aspires to better articulate how forms and textures provoke senses, manipulate emotions and articulate memories. Her interest in materiality takes the form of multiple explorations into shapes that become materials or materials that turn into shapes. Often threatening while revealing an overwhelming sense of fragility her creations are creatures of another realm, somehow unfamiliar, somehow, if one looks closely enough, all too familiar.

Disembodied 

Amid the garbage crisis that rose in Lebanon in 2018, Disembodied puts the body on display; dismantled, disfigured and fragmented. Piles of casted and stuffed silicone bodies, swept at the edge of the La Vitrine, come together to create a whimsical scene in the center of a city where the body’s condition within the crisis is constantly in question. The human yet non-human display results in interconnected mutated forms originating from the body. Made with synthetic skins, they are left for passers-by to observe, question and reflect upon.