ANDRÉA VAMOS

Andréa Vamos is a graduate of the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Of Yugoslav origin, she lives and works between France and her native country.

She experiments with the territory, creating in situ installations with the intention of preserving traces through photography. In search of the memory and repair of a damaged time, the artist explores sites where nature and ruins are architecture. Franco-Yugoslav, the artist draws on her roots in an attempt to reconstruct the history of countries that have disappeared or are undergoing radical geographical change. Andréa Vamos’s installations are designed to be experienced as a journey to the heart of often unexplored territories. The accumulation of visual materials is ephemerally staged and set in motion in the landscapes that host them. This process of amplification and distortion through color and light blurs the lines, revealing enigmatic presences and undefined spaces that become ghostly places. This duality between the visible and the invisible enables the artist to create resurgences, which she captures and superimposes on the lexicon of photography. Photography acts as a mise en abyme, questioning our distance from reality. Her lens-captured installations act as mirrors, sculpting a deserted landscape.

Her photographic work enables her to manipulate time and space. The artist assembles, assimilates, repeats and reconstructs to develop archival images and cartographies of the ephemeral present moment. As a kind of in situ metaphor, the artist installs his work in both physical and psychic spaces. Her works draw attention to the growing phenomenon of shrinking space, both geographically and in terms of our actions and freedoms.

Whether in photographs or installations, the work of Andréa Vamos bears witness to an attachment to spaces. By deconstructing the relationship between borders and exploring potential common heritages, Andréa Vamos’s works establish a complex of ramifications tending to constitute an absolute History. She presents the contextual effects of a narrative, which are in turn treated as research tools, works of art or decorative elements, in order to break with the amnesia of a time that nevertheless passes and transforms.