honorable mention
Ana Priscila Rodriguez netherlands
title
The Invisible
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
These series describe the transition of Menopause in Women from a social construct point of view. Menopause still remains a tabu subject in many countries and within many societies. Today the popular concept of menopause in many cultures depics a woman who is no longer fertile, productive or needed, neither attractive or capable. The truth is that while Menopause is a disruptive period in the life of productive fertile women, it is experienced as the end of a troubled cicle and the beginning of a sterile but hopeful and beautiful period. The stigma of society creates an environment of loss and deprivation for women of certain age while In reality Menopause is only one of the many natural phases of a productive life of every female. These series attempt to portray the real process in the acceptation of Menopause and the discovery a middle age rebirth through a whole physical and mental experience, which embodies a death, yet a new life at the same time.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.
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