Dora Reiss

Dora Reiss is an Argentine visual artist working with constructed photography.

Her work focuses on the creation of perceptual situations, where figure, space, and objects interact to produce states rather than narratives.

She develops ongoing series, including Atlas of States of Calm, which explores stillness as a habitable condition.

Rather than representing reality, her work builds images that unfold through perception. Each piece is not a closed image, but an experience activated in the viewer.

Across the series, a solitary female figure establishes a point of reference within controlled environments, where scale, proportion, and spatial relationships introduce subtle tensions.

Studies in artistic ceramics and figure drawing (life model).

Background in analog photography, later developed into digital photography, image editing, and AI-assisted visual practices.

Selected artist, Albacete Documental, Spain (2005–2009)
Work published in exhibition catalogue

Selected artist, National Textile Art Salon, Bolsa de Comercio, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2017

Group exhibition, Artecho, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2010
Work included in catalogue and sold in support of Un Techo para mi País

Documentary photography exhibited at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2011

Contributor, Postales de Cuarentena, collaborative publication with artists and psychoanalysts, Argentina, 2023