Alexandra Tatar

(1989*Romania) since 2011 living and working in Vienna. Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and at the University of Art and Design Cluj Napoca. In her work, she deals with processes of becoming, expending onto objects and other non-human beings, seen as an extended geography of subjectivity. Her work has been exhibited at MNAC National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest (RO), FLUCA - Austrian Cultural Pavilion Plovdiv (BG), VBKÖ (AT) and at the Vienna Art Week, amongst others. She is recipient of the Art Start Scholarship of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 2018.

Based on experience as a seasonal worker in the pandemic, superimposed with that of a permanent resident in Austria, Alexandra Tatar is working on a video essay connecting the exploitation of bodies enabled by the coloniality of power, to the wine culture, using multiple perspectives that her intricate positionality allows her. She is conceptualizing the visual material on one hand through her body turned machine, while on the other she is detaching the body, superimpose it on landscape and link between geographies, showing its resistance mechanisms and how it all connects to the culture of wine prevalent in Austria.