DON JOY (or how to learn to walk to love)

2025, mixed media, adjustable size

(...) Pleasure and pain also go hand in hand in Tamara Goehringer‘s symmetrical textile work DON JOY (or how to learn to walk to love) (2025). This consists of a surgical splint, support straps and other medical material and is stretched like an animal skin in a metal frame. On the one hand, the piece appears like the abstract silhouette of a Rochart test fanning out around a vulva-like centre, on the other hand the corset-like form testifies to discipline and control. Stretched to bursting point, the textile seems confined and yet close to breaking free. The fact that the medical material also has something erotic and fetishistic about it reveals a hybridity that is also inherent in the artist‘ s drawings ... (...) 

Excerpt from the exhibition text for um fragile Affären by Ramona Heinlein. 

https://saliva.live/exhibitions/2dee22b1

https://www.gallerytalk.net/bruchige-versprechen-waf-wien/

Exhibition views and details um fragile Affären, 2025, WAF-Galerie, Vienna (AUS)