Tamara Safarova is a Ukrainian artist of Azerbaijani origin based in Kyiv, Ukraine. Working across drawing, comics, painting, digital art, and performance, she explores identity, trauma, transformation, personal and collective memory. Her practice examines the relationships between body, memory, and landscape through a postcolonial lens, while exploring more-than-human perspectives.
Her first solo exhibition took place at Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany, in 2022. Since then, her work has been exhibited internationally at venues including Santa Maria delle Grazie (Venice, Italy), Kühlhaus (Berlin, Germany), Riga City Council (Riga, Latvia), the National Museum of Ukrainian Folk Decorative Art and Mystetskyi Arsenal (Kyiv, Ukraine), and Poltava Art Museum (Poltava, Ukraine).
Her works are held in institutional and public collections across Europe.
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Artwork from the series “Red-blue”, created during Artists at Risk (AR) art residency.
This painting is an expression of anxious thoughts that arise within me due to the conditions of our modern life.
The main elements of this abstract work are several blue-red circular shapes.
These forms flow into one another, creating an impression of tension and the movement of masses.
Through this artwork, I have released my anxious thoughts, attempting to convey their energy.
Tamara Safarova is a Ukrainian artist of Azerbaijani origin based in Kyiv, Ukraine. Working across drawing, comics, painting, digital art, and performance, she explores identity, trauma, transformation, personal and collective memory. Her practice examines the relationships between body, memory, and landscape through a postcolonial lens, while exploring more-than-human perspectives.
Her first solo exhibition took place at Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany, in 2022. Since then, her work has been exhibited internationally at venues including Santa Maria delle Grazie (Venice, Italy), Kühlhaus (Berlin, Germany), Riga City Council (Riga, Latvia), the National Museum of Ukrainian Folk Decorative Art and Mystetskyi Arsenal (Kyiv, Ukraine), and Poltava Art Museum (Poltava, Ukraine).
Her works are held in institutional and public collections across Europe.
