Andrea Alkalay: Urban Territories

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Andrea Alkalay, "Urban Territories," 2018

This exhibition will be on view at Billboard 208, a programming site situated on the exterior storefront of The New Gallery.

Exhibition Description

memory

The appearance of gated and walled communities on the outskirts of Buenos Aires constitutes an urban phenomenon of great social relevance. I photograph these walls as geopolitical landforms; frontiers that separate private properties and rank neighbourhoods, harshly altering the urban landscape. Though these walls express distinct traces of what they hide or expose, patterns emerge in the uniformity, where everything becomes alike in their differences. From whichever side I stand, the way of perceiving the world changes through a play of realities.

Walking through the outside,  I feel the quiet friction of these inflicted boundaries, considering causes and consequences in terms of our social fabric, and I wonder how we are prisoners of our own beliefs.

I remark on the interaction between the wall and its situated context through a mirror that reflects what remains outside, searching for an interpretation that goes beyond what we behold. The mirror contains the other dimension which the wall conceals.

Biography

Andrea Alkalay is an Argentinian conceptual photographer living and working out of Buenos Aires. She has participated in lens-based workshops and residency programs, and in 2020 received the SM Pro Art Circle Funding grant. In 2016, Alkalay published Uncertain Nature, a photo book of her journeys while travelling. Her work has been  exhibited at: Fine Arts Museum Franklin Rawson (Argentina), Cultural Center San Martin (Argentina), Mundo Nuevo Gallery Art (Argentina), OdA Arte (Argentina), BAphoto 2019 (Argentina), National Museum of RAK (UAE), ArtFest Garzon and Espacio Foto Arte (Uruguay), Cultural Station Mapocho (Chile), ArtMonaco 2015, and Galerie Etienne de Causans (France).