Skies

I explore the illusory of a natural landscape image and its digital chromatic decomposition, transferring what is captured in one sense (the sight) to the codes of another system (RGB).I am interested in the idea of nature as a cultural construction and the composition of a new landscape with other readings. A dialogue between figuration/abstraction where the real and the manipulated overlaps. 
The series won the First Place of Latin America Profesional Awards 2021 by the World Photo Organisation.

Landscape on Landscape

A blank sheet of paper is always a blind moment full of uncertainties facing a story to be revealed. A non-sound.
I explore the sculptural quality of a silk paper, illuminated by the sunlight when casting shadows unveiling its volumetry. Sketches that go from a paper ball to shapes with imaginary contents.
For this project I work with an hybrid development processes as a result of my thought about how an empty contentless paper is able to acquire more presence through form and materialisation in parallel.

"Every act of perception is an attempt to impose order "..*John Yorke

Brief Shape

KUTHO takes inspiration from a Burmese concept of merit. A common ritual undertaken by Burmese Buddhists is to cover their relics with gold leaves. Leaving a gold-mark is exclusive to male devotees for merit-making towards better karma. Women, in the guise of an impure status, are forbidden to approach. 
Gold and Religion have an ancient relationship. The series talks about Power associated to Religion and the relationship between the visible / not visible, cult/occult, and parallels universes. 
 

KUTHO series

The way we live the city daily influences in how we stand / think and act politically within the world. The appearance of gated communities on the outskirts of the Buenos Aires constitutes a phenomenon of great relevance. I photograph their walls as frontiers that separate ranks of neighbours that roughly alter rules radically. From which side I stand, the way of perceiving the world changes through a play of realities. Walking through the outside it feels the quiet friction of the boundary, considering causes and consequences in terms of the social fabric, and I wonder how far we are prisoners of our own beliefs. I remark the interaction between walls and contexts through a mirror that reflects what remains outside. 

Andrea Alkalay