Tatiana Blass:

Electrical Room

Brazilian artist Tatiana Blass explores distinctions between real, lived experience and illusions or representations of it in her installations, paintings, and sculptures. Her works often have an uncanny or strange quality to them, in large part due to her penchant for making functional objects dysfunctional. Tatiana Blass: Electrical Room presented hundreds of cords and plugs that wound through the space of the Congdon Gallery, creating a tangled web of material. The cords all came together at a fixed point on one wall, penetrating the wall and seeming to provide power to a dense installation of audio-visual equipment in the adjacent gallery.

Tatiana Blass was born in 1979 in São Paulo, where she currently lives and works. She received a residency at Gasworks, London in 2012. Her work has been exhibited at Cisneros and CIFO Collection, Miami; Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa, Portugal; Brazil Bank Cultural Center, Brazil; Museum of Modern Art of Bahia, Brazil; and Maria Antonia Cultural Center, Brazil.