Multimedia artist and designer, Tatiana Da Silva Vaz is the winner of the 2023 AMMA Prize. After having been selected by the jury of this prize and having exhibited at the Bastille Design Center, she is today endowed with a personal exhibition at the contemporary art gallery of the university Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, Sorbonne Artgallery, a unique space created by Yann Toma in the heart of the 5th arrondissement. The AMMA Prize is a prize for young contemporary artists supported by the Panthéon-Assas law university. For 6 years, a partnership has linked this event to the gallery, allowing emerging creators to be rewarded with a solo show at its venues.

 

Born in Lisbon in 1998, Tatiana Da Silva Vaz graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris (ENSAD) in 2023. She is today based in Paris. Her work addresses the themes of the body as an envelope and its metamorphoses. The plastic dimension of his work convokes a great plurality of mediums and materials (sculpture, photography, textile supports, latex...) while maintaining a deliberate formal simplicity. His relationship with craftsmanship and sometimes perishable materials testifies to a desire for reflection and retreat from the corporal norms prevalent in liberal powers based on a consumerist model. The artist aims for a resilient representation of oneself. She recently presented an exhibition at the Orion Tower, in Montreuil, under the title of ''Morfo©” ' exploring the skin motif.

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The exhibition 'Recordar' presents a series of nine photographs that allow us to enter into the creative process of Tatiana Da Silva Vaz. Each of the images, taken with a film camera, offers a view of the productions, retracing his way of thinking and developing his works. Through close-ups or more classic framing, mostly with neutral, white backgrounds, the objects are shown in impassive and tranquil looks, while suggesting their sensitive history charged with affects.