{"id":1360,"date":"2018-03-13T13:07:01","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T11:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uba.lt\/kim\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2018-04-28T12:32:39","modified_gmt":"2018-04-28T09:32:39","slug":"message-147-494","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kim.lv\/en\/message-147-494\/","title":{"rendered":"Di\u0101na Tamane &#8220;Message: 147 of 494&#8243;"},"content":{"rendered":"From almost imperceptible movements and awkward gestures, Di\u0101na Tamane follows traffic routes from Eastern to Western Europe, so during the working process her family members become the main characters. That\u2019s the artist\u2019s dad, who has been regularly traveling to Germany since the 90s, purchasing cars, electronic equipment and other stuff and selling them in Latvia, and that\u2019s her mom, who became a long-distance truck driver a few years ago, when her business went bankrupt.<\/p>\n<span class=\"indent\"><\/span>The artist\u2019s first exhibition in Latvia is a documentation, arising from Tamane\u2019s mother\u2019s experiences. The exhibition title <em>Message: 147 of 494<\/em> is taken from the exhibited video &#8220;Letters from mom&#8221;, it represents a letter sequence in the mother and daughter conversation in Tamane\u2019s e-mail inbox. The exhibition also includes a video entitled &#8220;On the Road&#8221; &#8211; a static video shot taken from a lorry&#8217;s front window with a phone conversation in the background; it&#8217;s placed in a dialogue with a large-scale photo print &#8220;Mom&#8221; and is exhibited beside text that contains information about Tamane&#8217;s mother&#8217;s movements across Europe in the last year: where she drove A-Z, what goods she transported A-Z.<\/p>\n<span class=\"indent\"><\/span>What began as an activity reinforcing kinship ties, incorporating family members in Tamane\u2019s works has now become an autonomous adventure with an element of a play and constant participants. The family is viewed as a reduced version of society, in which the prevailing relationships are always intense &#8211; regardless of whether the family is united in harmony or conflict. Beside her own documented shots, working with video, text and found objects, Tamane regularly uses vernacular photography taken by her family members, whose involvement in the artistic act is regularly accompanied by tension and flickers of emotion.<\/p>\n<span class=\"indent\"><\/span>Along with an interest in relationship psychology, her practice also considers the social and economic facets. Through the exhibition&#8217;s implicit main character \u2013 Tatjana Tamane, a representative of a stereotypically &#8220;unwomanly&#8221; profession, the artist draws attention to her observations about a woman who grew up in Soviet Latvia and who shaped her views in today&#8217;s language of distinctive character and symbolism. In Soviet-era propaganda posters the ideal woman was shown being strong and cheerful, posing in front of the constantly growing housing blocks, a factory or driving a tractor. Tamane&#8217;s mother&#8217;s large-scale portrait behind the wheel of a glossy and sizably impressive vehicle, becomes a direct reflection of this experience and memory.<\/p>\n<span class=\"indent\"><\/span>Viewed all together, Tamane\u2019s work covers questions concerning family, the origin of working class aesthetics, the role of women in society and the new social order. This theme follows the changes in the region in the early 90s; by highlighting social processes, labour relations and the dynamics of mobility, the artist creates her own version of a contemporary post-Soviet society&#8217;s portrait.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Di\u0101na Tamane<\/span> (b. 1986), born in Riga, graduated from the Tartu Art College, received a Masters Degree at the Sint-Lukas Brussels University of Art and is currently studying at the HISK Institute in Belgium. She primarily works with photography and video as she examines themes of identity, memory and familial ties \u2013 closeness and estrangement. Tamane has had several solo-exhibitions: Art House Tartu; Recyclart Brussels; Y galerii Tartu, and has participated in group exhibitions in Belgium, Russia, Turkey, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia. Currently her work is on view at the HISK laureate group exhibition The Empty Fox Hole. In the summer of 2016, Tamane received the Modern Art Museum Friends of S.M.A.K. award in Ghent, and was also selected as the New Belgian Talent for the publication <em>tiff<\/em>, which is published by FoMu, the Photo Museum in Antwerp.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From almost imperceptible movements and awkward gestures, Di\u0101na Tamane follows traffic routes from Eastern to Western Europe, so during the working process her family members become the main characters. 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