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Tamara Arroyo
Spain, 1972

Tamara Arroyo’s body of work reflects a persistent inquiry into the habitability of spaces. She questions the «domestication» of the modern inhabitant and the consumption of certain formal elements and objects within contemporary living spaces. The autobiographical references in her work serve to articulate a discourse on both individual and collective memory.

Through her recurring engagement with images of the spaces she appropriates, the city and public space emerge as privileged settings of everyday life, marked by their distinctive identities and vast creative potential.

Through various formal approaches, her works explore how our surroundings and architecture influence us, distinguishing between lived, experiential, and existential spaces—those that operate on an unconscious level.

The artist emphasizes different intellectual states that arise in our relationship with our immediate environment, such as the emotional need for a sense of belonging to a place or the importance of peripheral vision, which integrates us into space. The latter allows us to notice details and situations that might otherwise go unnoticed, shifting us from mere spectators to active recipients of new stimuli.

She has exhibited at institutions such as Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, La Casa Encendida, Matadero Madrid Centro de Creación Contemporánea, CentroCentro, Es Baluard Museu, the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome, and the Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, among others.

Her work is part of the collections of Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Madrid, Colección DKV, and Colección Banco Sabadell.

Tamara Arroyo
Pared maciza como fondo para elementos ornamentales
2023
Stoneware ceramic
157 x 11 x 2 cm

6.900 € (VAT included)

Tamara Arroyo. Un fatal descontento de lugar. 2023

A Fatal Discontent with Place is Tamara Arroyo’s second solo exhibition at NF/NIEVES FERNÁNDEZ. The show presents previously unseen yet significant pieces within the artist’s trajectory—ideas that remained on the margins of past projects and needed to take shape. Some of these works directly stem from previous commissioned pieces created for public spaces.

The exhibition’s title is drawn from a concept described by Jane Jacobs in her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities, which, in its strange or awkward translation, proves highly fitting here: A Fatal Discontent with Place. Jacobs reflects on the contradictions between monofunctional urban policies and the multiple uses of the city, advocating for an urban life that ensures certain freedoms and choices.

Tamara Arroyo’s practice is rooted in her own experiences as a city dweller. She explores this both literally—by salvaging found objects from her walks and decontextualizing them within her works—and poetically and subjectively, through references to her personal experiences, her time in Havana, or the way light filters through the street furniture in her neighborhood, for example.

By recreating devices of order and separation, Tamara Arroyo speaks of identity, individuality, and freedom. Through her exploration of ornamentation, tiling, craftsmanship, and wrought ironwork—elements still present in working-class neighborhoods and social housing—she seeks to reclaim the diversity that capitalism erases.

This exhibition is a playground, a scaled representation of the city. It is a stage that demands effort and adaptation from the visitor, compelling them to reflect on their own experience within the complex and ever-changing urban environment. Ultimately, it is an assertion of personal identity—a manifesto for diversity in uncertain times.

Tamara Arroyo
De la serie Un fatal descontento de lugar 1
2023
87 x 70 cm
Iron

Tamara Arroyo
De la serie Un fatal descontento de lugar 2
2023
127 x 53 cm
Iron

De la serie Un fatal descontento de lugar 3
Tamara Arroyo
2023
134 x 63 cm
Iron

Tamara Arroyo
Mezcolanza
2023
Enamelled iron
97 x 120 x 40 cm

8.600 € (VAT included)

Tamara Arroyo. Un fatal descontento de lugar. NF/NIEVES FERNANDEZ, Madrid. 2023

Tamara Arroyo
Pata de banco
2019-23
Iron, ceramic, stones, cement
60 x 57 x 21 cm

8.000 € (VAT included)

Tamara Arroyo
Palmera
2017-2023
Iron and enamel
146 x 96 x 36 cm

8.600 € (VAT included)

Tamara Arroyo. Un fatal descontento de lugar. NF/NIEVES FERNANDEZ, Madrid. 2023

Tamara Arroyo
Untitled
2019-23
Enamelled iron, stoneware
97 x 140 x 30 cm

8.600 € (VAT included)

Tamara Arroyo. Un fatal descontento de lugar. NF/NIEVES FERNANDEZ, Madrid. 2023

Tamara Arroyo
Condición urbana
2023
Enamelled iron
85 x 81 x 43 cm

8.000 € (VAT included)

Tamara Arroyo. Pura calle. NF/NIEVES FERNANDEZ. 2019

Tamara Arroyo
Ciclo vital
2023
Iron, enamel, stoneware ceramic
122 x 188 x 22 cm

8.600 € (VAT included)

Tamara Arroyo. Un fatal descontento de lugar. NF/NIEVES FERNANDEZ, Madrid. 2023

Tamara Arroyo
Haiku
2023
Enamelled iron, tiles, glass
150 x 110 x 3 cm

Sold. Private collection

Tamara Arroyo
Vida comunitaria
2023
Iron, enamel, stoneware
230 x 23 x 23 cm

Tamara Arroyo. Galería Ana Más. 2021

Tamara Arroyo. PANORAMAMADRID. CentroCentro, Madrid. 2021

Tamara Arroyo. Del tránsito y lo transitorio. Galería Espacio Olvera. 2020

Tamara Arroyo. Aragon Park. Madrid. 2020

Tamara Arroyo. Pura calle. NF/NIEVES FERNANDEZ. 2019

Tamara Arroyo. Pura calle. 2019

Pura calle is Tamara Arroyo’s first exhibition at NF/NIEVES FERNÁNDEZ, bringing together both previously unseen pieces and a selection of works that represent her artistic trajectory over recent years.

This selection engages in dialogue with the different themes the artist explores in her work—rooted in her lived experiences—such as her daily walks through the city, where she encounters residual elements from the processes of «domestication» of the modern inhabitant.

In this sense, the body of work presented questions the mechanisms of consumption related to certain formalizations and objects within contemporary living spaces. It is articulated through some of the artist’s autobiographical references, which ultimately construct a discourse on both individual and collective memory.

The urban locus from which these works emerge serves as a reference point for the artist to observe the architectural processes shaped by social conditions in the construction of space.

Public space, as a privileged site of everyday life, becomes a repository of identity markers and creative potential. Tamara Arroyo, therefore, explores the friction between architecture and the environment in their ability to shape their inhabitants. Through different artistic formalizations, her works evoke these issues, distinguishing between lived, experiential, or existential space—operating unconsciously—and physical, geometric space.

Her work highlights the mental states that emerge from our relationship with our immediate surroundings, such as belonging, integration, and critique. Through this, she seeks to encourage the viewer to develop new sensations, perspectives, and interactions.

Tamara Arroyo
Balcón (Azul)
2019
Enamel on metal and glazed ceramic
56 x 68,5 x 54 cm

6.900 € (VAT included)

Tamara Arroyo
De la misma condición
2023
Enamelled iron and found tiles with enamel and varnish
75 x 95 x 3 cm (window) y 21 x 95 x 4 cm (shelf)

8.600 € (VAT included)

Tamara Arroyo
Socks I
2019
Enamel on iron and glazed ceramic
81,5 x 90 x 10 cm

7.500 € (VAT included)

Tamara Arroyo
Estantería
2019
Glazed ceramic and metal grid
90 x 83 x 10 cm

Sold. Private collection

Tamara Arroyo
Caja de IKEA
2019
Glazed ceramic
3 x 30 x 19 cm

1.900 € (VAT included)

Tamara Arroyo
Caja de herramientas
2019
Glazed ceramic
12 x 30 x 22 cm

2.500 € (VAT included)

Tamara Arroyo. Pura calle. NF/NIEVES FERNANDEZ. 2019

Tamara Arroyo
Bolsas de Sengal
2019
Glazed ceramic
30 x 27 x 4 cm

Sold.

Tamara Arroyo
Bolsas de Senegal
2019
Glazed ceramic

Sold. Private collection

Tamara Arroyo
Vallas ornamentales (Verde)
2019
Enamel on metal
75 x 80 x 37 cm

Tamara Arroyo
Vallas ornamentales (Amarilla)
2019
Enamel on metal
75 x 80 x 37 cm

Tamara Arroyo
Vallas ornamentales (Gris)
2019
Enamel on metal
80 x 80 x 37 cm

Tamara Arroyo. Pura calle. NF/NIEVES FERNANDEZ. 2019

Tamara Arroyo
Relaciones
2016
Deconstructed plastic box
75,5 x 80 cm

Tamara Arroyo
Caja de pizza I
2019
Ceramic and collage
8 x 64 x 40 cm

Tamara Arroyo
Mancha de hamburguesa
2019
Ceramic and glazed ceramic
10 x 35 x 35 cm

Tamara Arroyo
Ochentas
2019
Enamel on metal
65 x 65 x 12 cm

Tamara Arroyo
Jarrón
2019
Enamel on metal
68 x 30 x 25 cm

Tamara Arroyo
Expositor de helados
2019
Glazed ceramic and metal structure
112 x 46 x 78 cm

Tamara Arroyo
Balcón (Verde)
2019
Enamel on metal
60 x 58 x 45 cm

Tamara Arroyo. PANORAMAMADRID. CentroCentro, Madrid. 2021

Tamara Arroyo
Año 59 de la Revolución
2017
Enamelled iron structure
223 x 165 x 100 cm

Tamara Arroyo
Relaciones (I)
2016
Fabric
72 x 65 cm

5.100 € (TVA included)

Tamara Arroyo
Relaciones (II)
2016
Fabric
65 x 65 cm

5.100 € (TVA included)

Tamara Arroyo
Relaciones (III)
2016
Fabric
100 x 60 cm

Tamara Arroyo
Dibujos de metal
2016
Galvanized iron
96.5 x 69 cm

Tamara Arroyo + Nuno Sousa Vieira. Canhoto As Zurdo. Nadie Nunca Nada No, Madrid. 2024

Tamara Arroyo
Relaciones II
2019
Ceramic and brass
Variable dimensions

Tamara Arroyo. Eudaimonia. ALimentación 30. Madrid. 2021