andrea alkalay

Photographer
   
URBAN TERRITORIES
Location: buenos aires
Nationality: argentina
Biography: Andrea Alkalay is a visual artist currently based in Argentina with a degree in Industrial Design (University of Buenos Aires ). Was trained in art-photography attending workshops and residency programs, experimenting with alternative techniques... MORE
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URBAN TERRITORIES
Copyright andrea alkalay 2024
Date of Work Jan 2016 - Ongoing
Updated Apr 2018
Location buenos aires
Topics Arts, Black and White, Borders, Civil Wars, Community, Conceptual, Confrontation, Discrimination, Documentary, Elections, Environment, Family, Fear, Fine Art, Freedom, Immigration, Incarceration, Landscape, Latin America, Military, Photography, Politics, Poverty, Prison, Privacy, Relationships, Violence, War

The appearance of gated communities on the outskirts of the Buenos Aires constitutes an urban phenomenon of great relevance in last decades. I photograph their walls as geographic landforms. Frontiers that separate private properties and ranks of neighbours that roughly alter the urban landscape and rules in a radical way. Though walls express themselves in different typologies leaving traces of what they hide or expose, patterns emerge in the uniformity where everything is alike in its differences.

From which side I stand, the way of perceiving the world changes through a play of realities between walls. While walking through the outside it feels the quiet violence of the inflicted boundary, considering not only the causes that gave origin to it, but also the consequences in terms of the social fabric, and I wonder how far we are prisoners of our own beliefs.

I remark the interaction between the wall and the context through a mirror that reflects what remains outside. The mirror contains the other dimension, which the wall conceals.


2016 / 17 . Digital direct shot


La aparición de barrios cerrados en las afueras de Buenos Aires capital constituye un fenómeno urbano de gran relevancia. Fotografío los paredones como accidentes geográficos urbanos. Fronteras que dividen propiedades privadas y jerarquías de vecinos alterando bruscamente el paisaje, la vegetación, las reglas, de manera radical. Si bien los muros expresan diferentes tipologías dejando rastros de lo que ocultan o dejan ver, los patrones se van repitiendo en la uniformidad donde todo se parece en sus diferencias.

De que lado me paro, cambia la manera de percibir el mundo en un juego de realidades entre los planos. Al caminarlos por fuera se siente la violencia de la línea fronteriza entre lo de adentro y lo de afuera, considerando no sólo las causas que le dieron origen, sino también las consecuencias en términos del tejido social y me pregunto hasta qué punto somos prisioneros de nuestras propias creencias.

Observo la interacción entre la pared y el contexto a través de un espejo que refleja aquello de lo que nos separamos o protegemos.El espejo contiene la otra dimensión que el muro oculta.

2016 / 17 . Fotografia digital toma directa
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