tamara suarez porras
as two bodies meet under a field of stars, 2020

triptych, pigment prints
24”H x 20”W (each)

ARTwork statement:

Gazing upwards at the infinite lends towards imagining infinite possibility, centuries of imagining woven under the gaze of stars. Closing our eyes, we might visualize and “recall” experiences of an infinitude of constellations. How do photographs create memories of the universe? What does it mean to remember, to know something that can never be touched? How might we get closer to knowing the unknowable? With visible tears and folds, the images meditate on the impossible physical relationship to galactic bodies of unfathomable scale and at impossible distances, yet able to be held by the hand through the photographic object.

ARTIST BIO:

tamara suarez porras is an artist, writer, and educator whose work considers photography’s relationships to knowing, remembering, and forgetting. tamara has exhibited nationally, including at the Brooklyn Museum, School at the ICP, and Deitch Projects in New York, as well as fusedspace, Root Division, The Growlery, and Embark Gallery in San Francisco. tamara is a graduate of NYU’s Photography+Imaging department and of California College of the Arts in Fine Arts and Visual and Critical Studies.