Photo by Octavia Bürgel, 2023
Jess Zamora-Turner is a British-Chilean visual artist based in Berlin.
Jess's practice can best be described as patchworking—making materials and histories belong together in ways they weren't meant to. Their emotional and spiritual remaking, unfolds slowly, either through her own hands or by allowing the elements—rain, mud, sunlight—to colour and shape the materials. As the textiles, threads, leaves, flowers and seeds come together to form her sculptures they form alternative sacred landscapes that challenge our political and environmental realities.
Jess frequently collaborates with poets, musicians, cooks, dancers, performers, and filmmakers to activate her works in collective rituals and events. Her practice expands on the tradition of Andean abstraction and experimental dyeing with plants that are foraged or specially grown. Jess is currently in her fifth year tending to a garden on the Polish-German border, where she grows a diverse selection of heirloom plants as well as stewarding at risk seed varieties.
Jess has exhibited at Shahin Zarinbal and Galerie Molitor in Berlin and at Hotel Warszawa Art Fair in Warsaw, Poland. Her collaboration with musicians and dancers, a public performance Zaplatanie was staged in Hasenheide Park in Berlin in 2022. She often leads workshops or communal events, such as herbal smudging workshops at Floating University in Berlin or Public Works Group in London.
contact: jessica.zamoraturner@gmail.com
Jess's practice can best be described as patchworking—making materials and histories belong together in ways they weren't meant to. Their emotional and spiritual remaking, unfolds slowly, either through her own hands or by allowing the elements—rain, mud, sunlight—to colour and shape the materials. As the textiles, threads, leaves, flowers and seeds come together to form her sculptures they form alternative sacred landscapes that challenge our political and environmental realities.
Jess frequently collaborates with poets, musicians, cooks, dancers, performers, and filmmakers to activate her works in collective rituals and events. Her practice expands on the tradition of Andean abstraction and experimental dyeing with plants that are foraged or specially grown. Jess is currently in her fifth year tending to a garden on the Polish-German border, where she grows a diverse selection of heirloom plants as well as stewarding at risk seed varieties.
Jess has exhibited at Shahin Zarinbal and Galerie Molitor in Berlin and at Hotel Warszawa Art Fair in Warsaw, Poland. Her collaboration with musicians and dancers, a public performance Zaplatanie was staged in Hasenheide Park in Berlin in 2022. She often leads workshops or communal events, such as herbal smudging workshops at Floating University in Berlin or Public Works Group in London.
contact: jessica.zamoraturner@gmail.com