JACA Vase - Golden

JACA vases are a collaboration between the world of design and nature, with the epoxy clay pieces borrowing their textures from a Jackfruit. They are the fruits of an experiment where Tamara relinquished control as a designer, and served as a tool to highlight and contextualize a form and a texture perfectly designed by nature. The result is new creatures belonging to both the natural and artificial realm; a world reflecting on the dual reality we live in.    

______

Tamara Barrage is a Lebanese artist and designer based in Dubai. Her interest in materiality explores shapes that become materials, and materials that become shapes. Often threatening while revealing an overwhelming sense of fragility, her creations are creatures of another realm—both unfamiliar and, if one looks closely, all too familiar. Using experimental techniques, she explores how forms and textures provoke senses, manipulate emotions and articulate memories.