Natural Born Digital

Back in 2022 I had the pleasure of creating the site specific work “Natural Born Digital” over the course of seven weeks for the co-working space: “Steamwork” located in Karlsruhe, Germany. I am Atau Hámos, an artist based in Berlin. I have worked as a full time artist since 2018. From 2018 to 2020 I was part of the tape art collective: “Tape That”. In 2020 I founded my own label called Tape art by Atau (tapeartatau.com) where I specialized in the creation of large scale site specific artworks. I have to be honest, in my creative process I use a lot of different materials like Washi, Vinyl and Gaffa tapes. Since I have been working with adhesives for quite a while all the different brands are kind of mixing up in my Studio. I have some favorites from the 9800 cast which I use quite often for example: violet, aubergine, steel blue, anthracite matt, fire brick.

What fascinates you about creating spatial art?
Boundaries and crossing them is something that has always interested me. For me, art that is bound by a frame is like a window that allows a limited glimpse into another world. The artist decides what he wants to show. Anything beyond that is not visible to the viewer. What fascinates me is to climb through this window and think of the artwork in a 3-dimensional way.
When I create a room installation, I have the opportunity to create a work of art that the viewer can enter. The artwork changes depending on the position of the viewer. It can be explored and discovered. Every room I design is unique. I love playing with spaces, reacting to them or consciously working against them.