ZAMARA ZAMARA

LASHED

Zamara Zamara, ‘Ancient Queers’ installation detail, 2018. Photograph by the artist.

Lashed embraces a sense of autobiographical vandalism, drawing out a series of mythologised and ‘monstrous’ bodies posited as a queered expression of resistance and rebuttal. The works indulge in memory and iconography as a reclamation of the body as a site of resistance to personal and cultural traumas.

Artist Biography

Zamara Zamara (they / them) is an antidisciplinary artist based in Naarm/Melbourne; they produce reflexive sculptures, satirical imagery, and site responsive installations. Incorporating elements of sculpture, photography, and printmaking, working predominantly with ceramics, fabric and fibres, casting, and fabricated structures, Zamara’s powerful imagery transcends traditional studio practice categories. Heavily informed by the touchstones of religion/mythologies, Zamara’s practice pursues the production of queered iconography and propaganda, with a consideration of how non-dominant histories may be located and alternate futures may be actualised. Looking to non-traditional modes of composition their work toys with re-appropriation to subvert and distort cultural tropes, playing out a tongue-in-cheek indulgence in stereotypes of the monstrous and grotesque, while reflecting on memory and modes of resistance. Their work locates contemporary issues of identity and self-reflection within an interdisciplinary and intergenerational lineage of practice.

Instagram: @zamarapresents
Website: www.zamarazamara.com