Andrea Alkalay
Bio
Based in Buenos Aires, Andrea Alkalay uses photography as a medium expressive. Graduated in Industrial Design from the University of Buenos Aires, her ideas were always related to form and function, and materials as tools to underline concepts.
She thinks through photography seeking the poetic and political potential that arises from observation by exploring the medium’s ability to manipulate the perception of reality. Another line of research of her practice is travel. The condition of foreigners and displacement is her source of inspiration. She’s interested in the discrepancy between what we see and what we know. Her work is exhibited and awarded internationally.
Prices:
2021
Latin America Professional Award, 1 place, World Photog. Org.
Head on Photo Festival. Finalist. Australia
The Royal Photographic Society RPS 163, UK. Shortlisted
Le prix de la photographie: State of the World, shortlisted Muse Photo Awards, Gold medal.
Moscow International Foto Award, Honor Mention.
2020
Tifa Tokyo International foto award, Bronze, Japan.
Premio Arte x Arte. Finalist, Argentina.
Ras Al Khaimah Fine Arts Festival. (UAE)
2017
Honor Mention, Fine Art /Editorial/ PhotoEssay and Feature Story Categories Festival of light 2017 Portfolio winner, Argentina.
Visual Arts Estación Mapocho, Chile.
CC San Martin, Visual Arts -Fronteras. Argentina
One Eyeland Award, Bronce Award. (USA)
LensCulture NetworkGallery. (USA)
Exhibitions
2021
Donggang Museum of Photography, Outdoor Exhibition Corea
OdA Arte Galeria, Buenos Aires.
Ki Smith Gallery, Group show Art Takes 2021. NY. USA
RAKFAF Festival, Hope. UAE
FotografasLatam. Group screening. Paris. France.
Mundo Nuevo Galería. Group exhibition. Buenos Aires.
2020
Phmuseum Erratic Dream exhibition
Selections Arts. Viewing rooms “ Works on Paper” (UAE).
Art-fest Pueblo Garzón. Campo Air. Uruguay
The New Gallery . Billboard Installation. Canadá
8th Ras Al Khaimah Fine Arts Festival (UAE)
VASA Exhibitions: Magical Realism: Latinas Argentina
2019
Mundo Nuevo Art Gallery. Buenos Aires.
Museo Bellas Artes Franklin Rawson. San Juan, Argentina
2018
Territories and Borders. Estación Mapocho. Chile.
Cité de Lárchitecture & du Patrimoine. Habitar en América Latina. París.
Siluetas y lazos, MUNT. Tucumán, Argentina.
National Museum of R.A.K. (UAE.)
Festival FINI. Centro Cultural Hidalgo, México.
Statement
Landscape, according to one of its definitions, is the admirable natural space for its artistic/scenographic aspect. We experience it according to our capacity for perception. We see what we know.
She works on the idea of nature as cultural construction and the composition of a new landscape with other readings.
The relationship between photography and landscape is insufficient, considering that the lens cannot capture the experience of having been there. It explores the illusion of the natural landscape and its digital chromatic decomposition by transferring what is captured in one sense (the view) to the codes of another system (RGB).
The series presents a dialogue between figuration / abstraction where the authentic meets the artificial, overlapping.
In the foreground is the monochromatic scenery and in the background, its digitized chromatic representation.
These double photographs combine opposite codes that attract as the perception of color through their absence, or the flatness of paper through the fold. The chromatic ranges are revealed through the pleating of the paper that gives volume breaking the geography with another topography in parallel. They are manual gestures that she uses paying attention to the artifices and the materiality of the photographic object. It underlines the effect of dragging into the terrain of the artificial what is given by the order of the natural.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
