Diana Tamane
In Diana Tamane’s work, family has an important place, and the series “From My Family Album” has attracted a lot of attention. The value of the series lies primarily in the multi-layered quality Tamane has managed to achieve within this particular theme. She has moved from portraits of close relatives to details of photographs from old albums and with the photograph exhibited here, she features the feeling of estrangement on the physical level of the image by providing a play on words – which refers to memory and dreams as the entry points to another world – a physical form: a memory (image) within a memory (image).
Whether the theme of Tamane’s work is family or other relations and contexts, it is characterised by the search of an immediate reality. Visual honesty instead of nostalgic poetics. Nevertheless, her photographs are very emotional. Honesty often leads to conflict (we want to forget our quarrels), yet Tamane’s photographs are full of sincere kindness – which is what we actually tend to forget.
DIANA TAMANE. From my Family Album II. 2013. Inkjet print. 70×60 cm. Edition: 1/5+1AP