I am a multidisciplinary artist based in Amsterdam, working across photography, film and installation. Alongside my autonomous artistic practice, I work as an audiovisual and photography coach. I am also co-director and curator of the photography platform Buy My Darlings.

My practice is research-driven and unfolds through different media, which I use to build layered narratives that are not only told, but felt.

My work often starts from personal questions and inner states, expanding into broader social and historical contexts. I am drawn to stories of women and their lived experiences, exploring themes such as vulnerability and strength, love and loneliness, the pressures of a makeable society, and moments of being slightly out of sync with the world. Body language, atmosphere, and the relationship between people and their surroundings play a central role in my work.

Through experimentation and hybrid structures, I move between documentary and imagination. Dreams, memory, and wonder are recurring elements in my practice, allowing space for ambiguity and reflection. Rather than offering fixed meanings, my work invites viewers into a shared state of attention — where inner struggle, connection, and transformation can coexist.

Selected Work

I have directed several documentary films that have been screened internationally. Over the Rainbow follows the coming-out and coming-of-age journey of my 80-year-old aunt and premiered at Hot Docs in Toronto, where it went on to screen at numerous festivals worldwide and received several awards. My documentary Love Letters premiered at IDFA in Amsterdam, was nominated for Best International Short Documentary, and was selected for The Atlantic Selects by The Atlantic Monthly in the United States.

In recent years, my work has increasingly taken the form of film and multimedia installations.

I’m Sorry (2024) is a performative film installation first presented at the Powerlong Art Centre in Xiamen, China. The work consists of a real-time slow-motion choreography projected onto black fabric, combined with a sculpted plastic floor and an immersive soundscape.

Almost There (2023) premiered at UNBOUND during UNSEEN Amsterdam and features a floating figure created using the Pepper’s Ghost technique. The installation was selected by de Volkskrant as Artwork of the Week.

I Write This Letter in Bed (2022) is an intimate multimedia installation exploring digital representation and identity. Centred on Rocy, a young woman in China navigating changing ideas around love and marriage, the project was presented at Galerie Caroline O’Breen alongside photographic lightboxes and works originating from my residency at the Chinese European Art Center in Xiamen.

In 2022, I published the artist book Perfect Pearl, which was shortlisted for the Prix du Livre Rencontres d’Arles and Best Dutch Book Design. The project was exhibited at Espace Van Gogh in Arles and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and presented internationally at venues including Technische Sammlungen Museum Dresden, Rencontres d’Arles Nuit de l’Année, Guernsey Photography Festival, Rolling Snowball Iceland and Galerie Caroline O’Breen.

My work has been exhibited internationally at festivals and institutions such as Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Hot Docs Toronto, IDFA, Rencontres d’Arles, UNSEEN Amsterdam, Technische Sammlungen Museum Dresden, NYC Independent Film Festival, Lincoln Center for the Arts, Melkweg Gallery, the Dutch National Portrait Gallery and BIG ART Amsterdam.

Tara’s work on Gallery Viewer.

EXHIBITIONS AND VIEWINGS:

2025 BUY MY DARLINGS LET LOVE RULE edition, Amsterdam

2024 Perfect Pearl book at Bigger Art Book Fair, Dongguan, China.

2024/25 I’m Sorry- Film installation with sculpture, Powerlong Art Centre, Xiamen China.

2024 Night 1895. ARS LONGA contemporary art museum, Iceland.

2024 Women in Art. De Hallen, Mercatorplein, Westerpark Amsterdam. March 1-31

2023 Perfect Pearl book at Best Dutch Book Design in Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

2023 Almost There- Film / photo sculpture installation at UNBOUND curated exhibition Amsterdam

2023 I Write This Letter in Bed- Film-installation at Der Greif at Pinakothek der Moderne & ZIRKA, Munchen

2023 BUY MY DARLINGS LOVE edition, Amsterdam

2023 I Write This Letter in Bed- Film-installation at gallery Caroline O’Breen Amsterdam

2023 Perfect Pearl at Tropic Bound Artists’ Book Fair, Miami Florida USA

2022 Mobile Home Film-installation at BIG ART Amsterdam

2022 Perfect Pearl the book at Prix du Livre, Espace van Gogh, Rencontres D’Arles

2022 Perfect Pearl the book at Athens Photo Festival & Encontros de Imagem Portugal

2022 Perfect Pearl at Nuit de L’Année, Rencontres D’Arles

2022 Mobile Home at Rolling Snowball #15, Iceland.

2022 Perfect Pearl at Portraits Hellerau in the Technical Collections Museum in Dresden.

2021 The Love Line, solo show at The Dutch Portrait Studio

2021 Perfect Pearl, solo show Guernsey Photography Festival. (Postponed to Dec 2022)

2020 Living on the Edge, Sharjah Art Foundation, Arabic Emirates.

2020 Love Letters film, AFSAD Festival in Ankara

2020 Love Sick short dance film at Dance film festival SPACE in Pittsburgh

2020 Over The Rainbow and women portraits, Solo show at Vizualizator Festival Belgrade

2019 Wild Poppy, Prix de la Photographie, Paris

2019 Wild Poppy Love me Tender at Docfield Barcelona, SOLAR Festival Brazil and Lagos Festival Nigeria.

2019 Wild Poppy at Photo Festival Naarden.

2019 LOVE SICK short dance film at Leiden experimental Film festival.

2018 Today, Tomorrow, Forever video installation, solo exhibition at C.E.A.C, Xiamen, China

2018 LOVE LETTERS film, The Helsinki International Film Festival- Love and Anarchy

2017 LOVE LETTERS, photography and video installation, Photo Festival Naarden.

2017 LOVE LETTERS film, IDFA, Sleepwalkers Film Festival Estonia, Eindhovens Filmfestival, The Atlantic Selects

2017 LOUIS THE FERRIS WHEEL KID at Movies that Matter Go Short, Nijmegen

2016 OVER THE RAINBOW at Berlin Short Film Festival, PINK APPLE filmfestival, Zürich,

Mardi Gras Film Festival in Sydney.

2015 OVER THE RAINBOW at NYC Independent Film Festival, MIX Copenhagen, Denmark.

Nederlands Film Festival, Utrecht,

Festival Asterisco, Buenos Aires, Hot Docs Toronto International Premiere,

Roze Filmdagen World Premiere. Jury Award Best Documentary and Audience Award.

2015 Gedanst. Permanent exhibition at Korzo theater The Hague.

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Tara’s work is supported by; Amsterdams Fonds Voor de Kunst, Amarte fonds, Stichting Stokroos, Tijlfonds/ Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, PPO Werktuig, Vevam Directors Fund, Dutch Film Fund and Mondriaan Fund.

Education: film and visual arts at the Netherlands Film Academy and the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, as well as at the Carnegie Mellon University in the US. She was selected for residencies in China (C.E.A.C) and Japan (Atlantic Centre for the Arts with Nan Goldin).