«When I enter a forest it seems to me to be at home». Tamara Dean from Sydney, born in 1976, a multidisciplinary artist and environmental activist, has repeatedly demonstrated against deforestation in his country and mining on the coral island of Heron. The main subject of his photos and the nature, Certain. And it is no coincidence that his latest exhibition at the Monash Gallery of Art in Victoria, South Australia, it’s called Leave Only Footprintsor «Leave only a footprint», an invitation not to destroy the immense Mother Earth.
Each of 11 photographs exhibited symbolically represents the artistic path that Tamara Dean has undertaken after her experience as a reporter for the Sydney Morning Herald: «When I had my first child, it became clear that I could no longer work as before. I no longer had all the time to tell other people’s stories. Furthermore, the maternity leave allowed me to think about what I really wanted to do, which was to create more personal photographic narratives », he says on Capture Mag. So, abandon the lives of others, takes a more artistic path: the inspiration comes from the style of the Pre-Raphaelite John William Waterhouse.
Among the shots on display there is one taken from series Endangeredsymbolic, very symbolic. Previously Tamara Dean had tried to represent man’s relationship with the sea, but the result – with a shot taken from above – was not enough. Thus, having overcome her fear of the ocean, she immersed herself in the water and took the photo of the sixteen people who lent themselves to her visual narration. The subjects appeared «vulnerable like any other existing creature», to quote it.
From the first series dedicated to climate change, Our Nature of 2018, at the Monash Gallery of Art it is exposed sacred lotus. The shot, taken for the Adelaide Art Biennale, has the Mount Lofty botanical garden as its stage and represents the destruction of the ecosystem by man.
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There are also some photographs taken from the project High jinks in the hydrangeas, born in 2020 during the first lockdown. Not being able to create large sets with male and female models, Tamara has made several self-portraits in which she has laid bare her anxieties and fears caused by the virus and isolation, to then simulate an escape from fears and a refreshment in nature .
Leave only footprints. Tamara Dean
Until February 19, 2023
MONASH GALLERY OF ART, Victoria
Source: Vanity Fair
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