Vania Elettra Tam
Como, 1968
The irony and the seduction of Vania Elettra Tam’s screenplays are overlapped with a veiled social critique but always with light, amused and surreal eyes. The house shelters, the delicacy and instability of its daily microcosms show us self-portraits of the artist while investigating the obsessive habits of the contemporary feminine world. The spectator is invited to play with units of time, places and spaces, with the awareness that nothing is as it seems.
Vania Elettra Tam was born in Como in 1968. After studying at NABA and at the School of Advertising Graphics at Castello Sforzesco in Milan, she worked as a designer in the Como textile sector, later abandoned to devote herself exclusively to art. Her choice was soon awarded by the City of Como, which in 2005 organized the first personal exhibition at Chiostrino di Sant'Eufemia. Numerous exhibitions were held later in Art Galleries and in institutional locations, among the most important should be mentioned her participation in the 54thVenice Biennale - Widespread Italian Pavilion of Vittorio Sgarbi at Palazzo Te in Mantova. In 2012 her works fly oversea to Cuba at the “Perturbaciones” exhibition at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Havana. She lives and works in Milan.
