honorable mention
Ana Priscila Rodriguez netherlands
title
Creatures
She graduated Cum Laude from the Academy of Fine Arts in Utrecht, The Netherlands in 2006, specializing in Mixed Media and Photography. She also has background studies in History and Graphic Design.
Her collage work explores images from the past, giving vintage material, through a mixture of diverse techniques, a completely new life and energy, all this evoking nostalgic textures and processes. The purpose of her images is to create a relatable shore for the emotional and psychological human experience. Every image is a window to a story using photography as a medium to create visuals attached to a feeling or an emotion. The complexity of the texture in her photographic work creates the illusion of an old oil painting in each of her images, giving a sense of dark melancholy, romance and drama with a tone of classic Baroque. They become eloquent stories and fairytales.
She creates conceptual self portrait photography using a variety of digital techniques and mediums until they lose their contextual shape. For her, transformation is the real act of creating art. To be able to transform my reality into a magical realm where real life collides with dreams and nightmares is what her work is all about.
Her mixed media work builds itself on layers of different materials, this is how she has developed her own technique called “faux tintype”, with this technique she simulates the metallic structure using transparent foil and different chemicals creating a small window to a small story. The result of that story is up to the viewer, it is like filling in the lines but through their experience and sensations. In this way her art becomes a direct line of communication through empathy and imagination.
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entry description
The Series “Creatures” is a fairy-tale like vision that combines the fragile sensitivity of the human presence before the mystery and depth of the Nordic nature. With this work I explore the influence of the heavy unknown dark forest upon the human existence and their psychology, producing a volatile and erratic, almost irrational reaction to the external immense force of nature. The human Soul exposed to nature and finding a way to become part of it, challenging the mental state and providing a magical and surreal experience or a glimpse of another realm where the human Soul is engaged in a journey of deep introspection, deep silence, fear, sadness and cherished fantasies. This series convey to portray how the human fragility produces beauty under the dark, heavy and overwhelming presence of Nature.about the photographer
Ana Priscila Rodriguez, born 1974 in Mexico City, resides in The Netherlands since 1998.She graduated Cum Laude from the Academy of Fine Arts in Utrecht, The Netherlands in 2006, specializing in Mixed Media and Photography. She also has background studies in History and Graphic Design.
Her collage work explores images from the past, giving vintage material, through a mixture of diverse techniques, a completely new life and energy, all this evoking nostalgic textures and processes. The purpose of her images is to create a relatable shore for the emotional and psychological human experience. Every image is a window to a story using photography as a medium to create visuals attached to a feeling or an emotion. The complexity of the texture in her photographic work creates the illusion of an old oil painting in each of her images, giving a sense of dark melancholy, romance and drama with a tone of classic Baroque. They become eloquent stories and fairytales.
She creates conceptual self portrait photography using a variety of digital techniques and mediums until they lose their contextual shape. For her, transformation is the real act of creating art. To be able to transform my reality into a magical realm where real life collides with dreams and nightmares is what her work is all about.
Her mixed media work builds itself on layers of different materials, this is how she has developed her own technique called “faux tintype”, with this technique she simulates the metallic structure using transparent foil and different chemicals creating a small window to a small story. The result of that story is up to the viewer, it is like filling in the lines but through their experience and sensations. In this way her art becomes a direct line of communication through empathy and imagination.
back to gallery