Diāna Tamane

Diāna Tamane’s works are based on personal stories created by combining the everyday experiences, impressions, habits and recollections of close intimates and herself. To perform this anthropological research, she employs photo and video cameras to document the heroes of the stories and the spaces they inhabit. The artist has been involving and examining her family members in her work for over a decade.

 The works “Mother” and “On the Road” are based on the artist’s mother, Tatjana. Tatjana is a truck driver, and this unusual profession provides rich material for her daughter’s expressive observations and experiments. Tamane not only personally photographs her family, she also involves them in the creative process, passionately observing how each of them copes with it. In this way, Tamane creates a unique family portrait from their everyday lives, a sort of photographic serial of one family’s life, which also reflects the contradictions and tensions of contemporary society as a whole.

Mother. 2016.

On the Road. 2015.