Tamara Cubas
Tamara Cubas is a Uruguayan artist whose work unfolds mainly on stage, expanding into performance and installation. Her practice always operates on the body and on relationships, understanding art-making as a space of encounter, tension and the collective construction of meaning.
She delves into the performative body as a territory of autonomy. She explores the power of Latin American bodies traversed by memories, histories and situated experiences, and their persistent decolonizing impulse. Her research turns toward the notion of the Other, driving processes with non-artistic populations and communities, where creation takes shape as a shared practice.
Her lines of reflection include History, homeland, power, the political, interpersonal relationships, heterogeneity and dissent. She is interested in the spoken word and in personal narrative —her own and that of others— as a strategy to strain and unsettle official narratives. Her work draws on experiences marked by Uruguay's political processes, including the military dictatorship, traces that run through her thinking and her production.
She conceives artistic work as a form of research extended over time. She develops projects, series and trilogies that allow her to address contemporary issues from multiple layers and perspectives, deploying devices that adapt to different cultural and social contexts.
In parallel, she is actively engaged in the field of cultural production, designing and managing projects, training initiatives and exchange programs in both the public and private sectors. She is the founder and director of Campo Abierto, a cultural platform based in Uruguay that brings together specialized programming in art and culture, and promotes gatherings, festivals and creative processes linked to the stage, architecture, music and the live arts.