Atenea Orihuela

Atenea Orihuela Tenorio is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice moves between photography, collage, and ceramics. Her work explores memory, materiality, and the quiet narratives embedded in places, objects, and gestures. Through a contemplative visual language, she investigates how history—both personal and collective—lingers within landscapes and constructed forms.

Her images privilege structure, light, and silence over spectacle, transforming documented spaces into timeless, introspective compositions. These photographs function less as records of place and more as meditations on presence, absence, and scale.

Alongside photography, her collage practice allows for a more fragmented approach to storytelling, layering images, textures, and references to recompose meaning. This interest in assemblage and narrative continuity extends into her work as a ceramist, where clay becomes both medium and archive. Her ceramic pieces are conceived as intimate objects—often sculptural, sometimes symbolic—carrying traces of time, touch, and ritual.

Across disciplines, her work reflects a consistent concern with permanence and fragility, with making as an act of preservation. Whether through the lens, paper, or clay, her practice seeks to ...