Fernanda Tafner
Born in 1980
Lives and Works in Paris
Fernanda Tafner was born in 1980 in Ibirama, Brazil. She holds dual Brazilian and Italian nationality. Fernanda studied Product Design at the State University of Santa Catarina, Brazil. In Paris, she did a Master's degree in Contemporary Art and New Media at the Université Paris 8 and studied photographic technique at the Ecole des Gobelins.
Her photographic practice, increasingly hybrid, integrating volume and sometimes sound, transits between experimentation and analysis, juggling memory and imagination. Through a dialectical process between identification and dissimilarity, his current projects question the collective and personal memory, from which emerge questions around the notions of visible and invisible, between presence and absence, body and history, identity and otherness.
Fernanda exhibits her work in Brazil and France. She has participated in artistic residencies, such as the Tignous Contemporary art center in Montreuil and the BZHPHOTO Festival in Brittany. His series “Manners”, “Propitious” and “SONGE” have been screened at numerous festivals such as Paranapiacaba in Brazil, the Diafragma International Photography Festival in Portugal, Les nuits du Centre d'art GwinZegal in France, and the SOLAR Festival in Brazil. In 2023, Fernanda publishes her first book, COMA, an autoedition supported by the agnès b. endowment fund. In 2024 she was a guest artist at the VER/VOIR Festival in Peru and finalist of the Mentorat #3 of the Filles de la Photo in France. In June 2025, his project "Elide, tell me about your dreams" will be exhibited at the Mesnographies Festival in France.
FORMATION
2012 Photographie numérique et argentique, Gobelins, Paris
2012 Master II Art Contemporain et Nouveaux Médias, Université Paris VIII
2010 Licence III Arts Plastiques, Université Paris VIII, Saint-Denis
2006 Licence en Design de Produit, Université de l’État de Santa Catarina, Brésil
EXPOSITIONS
2025 Mesnographies édition #5, Les Mesnuls, France
2023 Regards sur le littoral Breton, Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris
2021 Restitution de résidence, exposition en plein-air, Festival BZH PHOTO, Loguivy-de-la-mer, Bretagne
2020 Essai pour avancer vers le début, restituion de résidence, Centre Tignous d’Art Contemporain, Montreuil
2019 Matières à penser, Centre Tignous d’Art Contemporain, Montreuil
2017 Tactile, Galerie NaCasa, Florianópolis, Brésil
2017 11º Salon National Victor Meirelles, Florianópolis, Brésil
2014 Nuit de la Photo Contemporaine des Invalides, Paris
2011 En tête, 6B, Saint-Denis
2010 Confidences, Université Paris VIII, Saint-Denis
2010 Quartiers Sensibles, CFDT, Paris
2010 Brain is a machine, Miroiterie, Paris
2009 Nuit Blanche, Aubervilliers
COLLECTIONS
2023 Musée de la photographie Nicéphore Niépce
ÉDITION
2023 COMA, auto-édité en 100 exemplaires numérotés avec le soutien du fonds de dotation agnès b.
RÉSIDENCES
2021 Résidence de création dans le cadre du Festival BZH PHOTO, Loguivy-de-la-mer, Bretagne
2019/20 Recherche et création en milieu de petit enfance, Centre Tignous d’Art Contemporain, Montreuil
PRIX
2024 Finaliste du Mentorat #3 de Les Filles de la Photo, Paris
FESTIVAL
2024 VER/VOIR, artiste invité, Píura, Pérou
PROJECTIONS
2022 Propice, SOLAR fotofestival, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brésil
2021 Songe, BZH PHOTO, Arles, Loguivy-de-la-mer, Promenades Photographiques, Centre d’Art Gwinzegal, Festival InCadaques
2021 Propice, dans la session «confinados», DIAFRAGMA - Covilhã International Photofestival, Portugal
2019 Manières, Festival de Fotografia de Paranapiacaba, Brésil
PUBLICATIONS
2024 Fisheye Magazine, Fernanda Tafner : fascismes en perspective, par Milena Ill
2023 Fisheye Magazine, Fernanda Tafner : les sacrifices qui nous définissent, par Lou Tsatsas
2021 Fisheye Magazine, Actu, BZH PHOTO : La brésilienne Fernanda Tafner rêve de la Bretagne, par Lou Tsatsas
2021 photolimits.com, Entre a Bretanha e Floripa, par Ioana Mello
2020 photolimits.com, Algumas reflexões sobre o trabalho “Ensaio para avançar ao início*, da fotógrafa Fernanda Tafner, par Ioana Mello
2019 Revue Point Contemporain, Focus, Les mains de Fernanda Tafner par Romain Arazm