Gathering is pleased to present Love You, Don’t Love You, a retrospective of Tamara K.E., tracing nearly 25 years of her artistic evolution.
In his essay in Tamara K.E.’s 2007 monograph, A Private View, Boris Groys underscores that the artist’s pictorial content, appropriating “contemporary media images”, is “hard to define” and marked by “consistent undefinability, unsharpness, and ambiguity”. The paintings in question included advertising images, stills from Hollywood films and MTV shows and photos of celebrities. Although we do not find such outright digital appropriation in the works comprising Love You, Don’t Love You, Groys’s characterisation is just as apt, demonstrating that this incertitude is one of K.E.’s through lines, which she achieves with a dual act: one that pertains to her shifting, scattered forms, planes and backgrounds while on the other to her vague pictorial motifs.
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