Tamara Barrage is a Lebanese artist and designer based in Dubai. After earning a masters degree in Product Design from ALBA (Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts) in 2011, Tamara pursued a second master’s degree from Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands specializing in Contextual Design. Upon her return to her hometown, Tamara engaged in exploring the tactile and sensorial characteristics of various materials. Using an array of experimental techniques, Tamara aspires to better articulate how forms and textures provoke senses, manipulate emotions and articulate memories. Her interest in materiality takes the form of multiple explorations into shapes that become materials or materials that turn into shapes. Often threatening while revealing an overwhelming sense of fragility her creations are creatures of another realm, somehow unfamiliar, somehow, if one looks closely enough, all too familiar.