Monday 4 April 2011

Alejandra Angel; Artist Statement




“The world is a masquerade where you are the pray and the predator;
an infinite ballroom where you don’t know when the lights are going off.”(Alejandra Angel Rios)
For the ephemeral exhibition I focused my attention on the human condition; youth, death and beauty are some of the subjects I’ve been interested for a while. I find the complexity of the human being fascinating; the mind and body with all the different shapes that can develop especially with the female form. 

I would also like to question the uniqueness of the human being; it could be said that we are all different or rather a mix of pieces that we gather from every human puzzle we cross in our lives and assemble in our own way? 
“The world is a stage” like Shakespeare would say, and in this infinite theatre we are all dancing to different tunes mixed at the edges of a song… 

I took the photographs in the studio to have more control on the image. A sense of mystery and ambiguity is brought by the mask covering her face. The poses rather instinctive (drift/driven) evoke human passions/desires, for we are first animal living in society.

Photography is like any other art it can be a medium of “self expression, of self exploration”; 
“We don't live forever, and beauty is just a passer-by and the joy of youth won’t stay long...”(Alejandra Angel Rios)

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