//statement
"That's how it is with Dees's work. The majority of them originate from the maritime. Ships, shipyards, parts of the hull of a ship ... Ships that have lost their function.
Or even not at all like in this image. You can not go any way with the ships or the absence of them. It forces you to stay where you are. No attempt to escape is possible.
There is a different horizon, but it remains unreachable for all eternity. That makes her work insufferable and therefore beautiful.
About her she writes that she is an artist who is fascinated by the sea and traveling on water.
By giving that desire no chance and making it impossible, her work is a hopeful failure for all onlookers and especially for herself. That adorns her.
Great artists are always convinced that the world is hidden behind the work. That the work is only an attempt to relate to that world. Tamara Dees might be one of them. "
(Text Loek Grootjans)
Tamara Dees (Terneuzen, 1971) studied autonomous arts at the ABK in Maastricht, Post St Joost in Breda and spent three months in 1998 at the KIAD Academy in Canterbury (UK).
Soon after the academy her work was presented in the Bonnefanten museum in Maastricht. She has participated in various group exhibitions in the Netherlands and Belgium,
including Sculpture NL in the Korenbeurs in Schiedam (2012), Façade in Middelburg (2012), Flood in CC Ten Bogaerde in Koksijde (B, 2017), Location in Aardenburg (2017)
She had solo exhibitions at Galerie van den Berge in 2014, Twelve Twelve Gallery, The Hague in 2016 and 2018, De Kabinetten van de Vleeshal (2014) and Mon Capitaine in Middelburg (2017).
Her works are in many private collections, the Sanders Collection - Ten Holte and the Voorlinden Museum.