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Téa Javiniar

Téa Javiniar is an up and coming multidisciplinary artist based in Vancouver, on the unceded and ancestral territories of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam Nations. Javiniar’s work focuses on exploring the definition of beauty and what frames its meaning. By working with one of the most common symbols of beauty; the flower, she works primarily with the themes of nature and the female body.

This subject is prominent across all of her fields, which include photography, painting and tattooing. Her work aims to emphasize the natural beauty that the world has to offer around us. Showing that we need not to fix what we see, but simply switch our own perspectives.

After all, what is really considered to be beautiful?

Photo series, Beauty In The Dark, taken on film, 2021

film photograph of a white flower peeking out of a large car tire
a flower being held up between the spaces in a for, dangling off a wooden beam
a flower emerging from a full garbage can

Taken from the photo book, Naturally Beautiful, 2023

a woman's face half emerged in a bathtub with an orange flower coming out of her mouth
a woman lying on a couch with her back facing towards the camera. A flower travels down her spin
An orange flower emerges out of a butt crack in front of a marble wall

Naturally Beautiful is a photo and poetry book. It compares the beauties of nature to the natural, stripped back state of the body. It is currently displayed at the Grad Show on campus at Emily Carr.

Untitled, 2023

Self portrait -- Javiniar in the nude facing to the left side with a black painted handprint on her neck
self portrait -- a body tangled up and squeezed tightly by ropes
A self portrait -- polaroid photo that is half burnt covers the entirety of the face except for the eye
Self portrait -- Javiniar sits in a chair while nude, with her back facing towards the camera. Two empty chairs are sat next to her.

My Body Is Art (My Body Is Beautiful), mixed media, 2024

An image of a quilt that has been torn and ripped up. The words "my body is art" is thrown across the bottom
A female nude figure with paint marks all over her body. She holds flowers in her mouth and her eyes are covered in post with black
Image of the hips down, a nude female body with paint marks all over. She is holding flowers that drapes towards the floor

A reclaiming of the body, the mind and of the artist herself. A powerful piece that speaks to taking back who she is by turning her scars into art.

Tattoo works

Téa Javiniar

Hello!
My name is Téa and I’m a photographer and tattoo artist!
My goal is to emphasize all beauty that is already present in our world.
I work primarily with nature — especially with an icon of beauty; the flower.
I also work with the nude, specifically the female body, questioning what the definition of beauty truly entails.

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