Tamara Jacquin is a Chilean artist based in Madrid with a background in architecture, interior design and visual arts. Her interdisciplinary practice includes sculpture, installation, painting, textiles, video-performance and photography. Her process is additive, meaning she works in layers and uses a new medium in each layer, which increases the complexity of the work. Her main technique is transfer. This technique consists of transferring a laser-printed photograph to a new support by applying acetone and pressure. Transfer is the raw material she uses to develop sculpture and installation pieces, or which she uses with embroidery, drawing or painting.
In her new projects, she explores everyday objects and decorative patterns from the home between the 17th and 19th centuries. Jacquin combines objects steeped in history, placing them in a contemporary context by combining them with industrial materials, textures and colours of our time. She takes special care with the dialogue between form and materiality. Her aim is to connect with the memory and imaginaries that these objects evoke, creating new stories of domestic space by establishing a relationship with the historical heritage that defines it. Through this process, the artist mixes the old with the present, reality with representation and mass production with the unique and unrepeatable.