Andrea Alkalay
Bio
Andrea Alkalay
is an argentine visual artist with a degree in Industrial Design (UBA)
2022 - Art Residency AlBalad / Ministry of Culture of Saudi Arabia; 2nd place winner Moscow Photo Awards.
2021 - 1st place Latin American Professional Award /World Photography Organization, finalist at Head on Photo Festival (Sydney) and Donggang Museum of Photography (Corea), Exposure Awards (Canada).
2018 - 1st place at the Light Festival Argentina, solo exhibition at the Fine Arts Museum Franklin Rawson; 8th Photography Biennale Tucumán.
Recent shows (2022) the Amalgama Art group exhibition (London and Bogota), CCK Borders.
Featured in Aesthetica Magazine (#107), PHmuseum.com, Future Now Book, Lenscratch, Artdoc, ArtFluent, F-stop, Click Magazine, Foto Feminas, Selections Arts (UAE), Saatchi Art New Voices book.
Statement
I majored in Industrial Design and learned photography at the same time. Materials and forms have always been tools to highlight concepts in their symbolic presence.
I think the image through the poetic and political potential that arises from observation. Deeply curious about regimes of representation to question things while suggesting diverse
interpretations.
Expanded Photography is a field that I dedicate myself to experimenting with. Another line of inquiry in my practice is the voyage. The condition of foreignness and displacement is a source of inspiration. I am interested in the discrepancy between what we see and what we know, where these qualities contradict and coexist simultaneously. Combining artificial and natural elements I seek to question our patterned beliefs and therefore, arrive at new meaning.
How does our way of living influence the world around us?
Are we prisoners of our own beliefs?
What is the relationship between the visible and not visible, or between religion and spirituality?
I hope these questions that come out from my works evolve into new levels of reflection, to
revise how we perceive reality.
