Ana Alvarez-Errecalde (Barcelona, Spain)
Birth of my Daughter (2005)
Analogue colour photography
ARTIST STATEMENT:
“Themes that are inspired by my personal experiences such as vital cycles, birth, motherhood, illness, immigration, aging and death are found throughout my body of work. I create images that become a document of our love, our fears and our conquests.
My artwork is a contemporary social commentary through which I endeavour to challenge the restricted unilateral stories that have been told and reinforced as a way of normalizing fear and submissive roles. I cherish plurality and my way of doing so is to contribute images and testimonies that expand perspective within the constricted existing imagery.
Within a common experience like expecting a child or the passing away of a parent, we may find transcendental truth. Art has the potential of transmitting emotions that confront our social numbness with something that is authentic, substantial and profound.”
Ana Álvarez-Errecalde is an Argentinian born artist, based in Barcelona. Her photographic works are exhibited and published worldwide and delve into personal experiences such as vital cycles, immigration and motherhood, and/or are critical of our unsatisfied consumerist society.