About

Clara Tassara (1978, Madrid) is a visual artist working across photography, photo-sculpture, and installation.

After studying Design at IED Madrid and completing creative training in New York, she worked as a stylist for publications including Harper’s Bazaar,Telva, and Marie Claire. In 2010–2011, she studied photography at EFTI, where she developed the foundations of her artistic practice.

The loss of her parents at a young age led her to seek refuge in nature, which became both a place of healing and a way of understanding the world. This relationship with the natural landscape continues to shape her work today.

Her practice explores the relationship between matter, time, and light. Through geological landscapes, fossilized trees, glaciers, deserts, and vegetal structures, she investigates the traces that time leaves on the natural world and the patterns that reappear across different scales of nature. Inspired by geology, philosophy, and the observation of place, her work seeks to reveal the hidden connections between landscape, memory, consciousness, and transformation.

Photography is the starting point of her process, but the image often expands into the sculptural through materials such as Viroc, acrylic, and screen-printed relief. By transforming photographs into physical objects, she explores landscape not as representation, but as matter itself—something that can be experienced, inhabited, and contemplated.

At the heart of her practice lies a desire to preserve. Not to stop time, but to retain its traces. Her work invites viewers to slow down, observe, and reconnect with the natural world, revealing forms that time has built and light makes visible.