Damla Tamer

Exhibiting artist Damla Tamer engages with the marks in her exhibition works while speaking to the audience in a semi-spontaneous monologue to explore questions of ethics of care, relation, production, and reproduction within our current temporal framework.

### Biography 

Damla Tamer is a visual artist born in Istanbul, Turkey and currently practicing in Vancouver. She has received grants and prizes, including the Andrew MacIntosh Memorial Book Prize in Fine Arts from University of British Columbia’s Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory, and has participated in artist residencies and exhibitions in Canada, Turkey and Europe, including a two-year residency at Borusan Art Center in Istanbul (2008-2009). Her work has been the focus of solo exhibitions at Darling Foundry, Montreal (2013) and the fifty fifty arts collective, Victoria (2018).  She is a member of the artist-run Dynamo Arts Association and the Vancouver-based artist mothers collective A.M. (Art Mamas). She has taught at various academic institutions including the University of British Columbia, UBC Okanagan and Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

This event was canceled due to COVID-19. 


A detail of Damla Tamer's artwork. It is a weaving of black and white printed paper. 

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Performance

A detail of various-shaped white ceramic vases sparsely placed on a white plinth. 

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Join all ten exhibiting artists in an informal conversation about how artistic practices can be carved out of unlikely times and spaces, and how generative questions arise from constraints.

The Artist’s Studio is Her Bedroom

Artist’s Roundtable

*The Artist’s Studio is Her Bedroom* is a group exhibition that challenges assumptions shaped by our patriarchal, capitalist society about where and by what means “serious” artwork gets produced. The exhibition shares the perspectives of ten Canada-based artists whose practices are attentive to these assumptions, and to the very real temporal, spatial and monetary constraints that bind and shape their work.

Their contributions to the show address a multitude of labours — whether physical, emotional, reproductive or otherwise — that are often inextricable from artistic production. Some question myths of the studio and the “magical” labour of the artist. Others explore unconventional models of authorship, including the entanglement of childcare and creative work. Each, in different ways, asks how we navigate (or resist) our artistic and political inheritances, and how we might seek out alternate role models and alliances through which to better strengthen our creative communities.

Together, the works in *The Artist’s Studio is Her Bedroom* assert the generative potential of these other spaces and cadences of creation, addressing artists’ feelings of distraction and constraints, and call for acknowledgement of and solidarity in different ways of being —a nd making art — in the world.

Curated by Kimberly Phillips, with assistance from Julia Lamare

CAG acknowledges the support of Canada Council for the Arts towards artists' travel.

ProgramGuideWinter2020.pdf

ExhibitionGuideTheArtistsStudio.pdf

BibliographyTheArtistsStudio.pdf

An image of a stage set framed by theatre curtains with brown curtains in the background. On stage is a set of a bedroom containing a bed, carpets, a small table, a room divider, and lounge chair. 

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A stack of prints on pink paper sits on top of a white plinth. The prints are of handwritten notes scrawled across the page. 

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Ten ceramic sculptures of various shaped bottles sit on top of a long rectangular plinth. Behind the plinth, a large black and white painting hangs and another sculpture on a tall plinth to the right.

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Two framed drawings on paper hanging on a gallery wall. The one to the right side is larger with blue markings, and the one on the right side is smaller with pink markings.

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Sand is piled against a V-shaped plinth on a gallery floor. Lining the top of the plinth are small colourful sculptures. Behind a large black & white vinyl print of a photo collage hangs on the wall. 

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Three woven, rectangular artworks hang horizontally on the wall. The weavings are made of white paper printed with black marks. 

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A ceramic bowl, wooden sculpture and two colourful glass lampshades sit on a three tier plinth made out of light wood.

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Large blue text on the wall of a gallery space that reads “I’M WORKING BUT I’M NOT WORKING FOR YOU.”

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A TV monitor hangs on the wall with a pair of headphones hanging beside it to the left. There is a wooden stool in front of the monitor. The video  on the screen shows four hands holding each other.  

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In the center of a gallery are mattresses piled with pillows. Behind a curtain with a printed photo of a bedroom stage set hangs from the ceiling and a large stuffed animal bunny lies on the floor. 

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Steven Brekelmans, Justine A. Chambers, Brady Cranfield, Maura Doyle, Claire Greenshaw, Leisure (Meredith Carruthers & Susannah Wesley), Annie MacDonell, Erica Stocking, Damla Tamer

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