TAMARA OSSO BODIES OF WORK
DISORDER OF ANTICIPATION | Body is stressed
Painting Exhibition
2018 – 2020
The Disorder of Anticipation Series is a psychological exploration of painting in relation to the chaos, sadness and trauma of living with a person who suffers from a serious illness. For me, this was my son’s fatal focal epilepsy.
Seizure, 2018, acrylic and oil on canvas (framed) – available for purchase
TUTU | Body is seeking
Choreographed Production
2017
Tutu is a short story written and produced for Dance Umbrella 2017 by Tamara Osso. In collaboration with Shanell Winlock, Laura Cameron, Kgotsofalang Moshe & Nathan Attie Botha from Moving into Dance Mophatong. The story is about reorganising social, cultural and personal structures. The challenges people face and the impact of their responses to those challenges.
TOUCHWORKS | Body is here
Ongoing since 2016
Touchworks are paintings on glass developed as physical and emotional check-ins. They have become part of a painting ritual, which restricts the paintbrush and only allows for skin contact on the surface. I still perform this ritual on a weekly basis.
This piece is titled ‘Nervous’
Various touch-works available
SELF-PORTRAIT V | Body is engaged
Photographed performance piece with paint on glass
2012
Can the dancer and the painter exist in one space?
Yes.
Limited edition of 3. Self-Portrait I – V.
SUBURBIA | Body is disembodied
Sound installation with blown glass, concrete and freshly cut grass 2014
A piece developed in response to living in a gated community.
Individual hand-blown glass sculptures available.
PREGNANT | Body is consumed
Installation with convex safety mirrors
2014
This installation piece was produced when Osso was pregnant. It explores how growing a fetus inside one’s body forces an examination of one’s external reality.
Available for purchase
ODE TO YVES KLEIN | Body is engaged
Performance piece with paint and canvas
2014
This performance is an homage to the practice of Yves Klein. His avant-garde, ritualised approach to painting and conceptual gestures have influenced Osso’s exploration of movement and materiality.
VIRTUALLY REAL | Body is removed
Painting exhibition
2014
This painting exhibition explored the automatic, static movement experienced when scrolling through social media platforms like Facebook. It is removed yet intimate all at once, explorative and stagnant, just like a painting.
2 paintings available from this body of work