I am now at Cité as one of the resident artists in Paris and I'm working full speed for our exhibition that will be had in Stockholm this October. Finnish Artists O and Fiber Art Sweden had joined their forces again and we are having our second group exhibition together at HV Galleri.
The artwork BUNNY (2023) is about following:
pâte modeler autodurcissante, photographs
Ten years ago during Cité residency period Tamminen had a nightmare about herself holding a bunny with shedding bambi fur. The nightmare was dreamt only a couple days before Tamminen’s first signs of schizophrenia. Ten years later she’s back at Cité creating a series of performative artworks where the bunny follows her from waking up after the nightmare. The photographs are full of intertextual references in Tamminen’s own previous artworks as well as popular culture such as films (Jim Jarmusch’s Coffee and Cigarettes) and comics (where Mickey Mouse can’t get rid of the marble elephant). The bunny symbolizes the main voice, George, and how the voice follows her everywhere.