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Ecuadorean visual artist resident in the Galapagos islands
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Monica begun her photography practice at young age but only in 2019 gets certified as professional photographer by the New York Institute of Photography and holds a bachelor’s degree in Photography and Visual Arts. Photography together with an over 30 years of a career in hospitality has taken her to find a new conceptualization of the landscape through the research and exploration of alternative techniques such as cyanotype, anthotype, chlorophyll prints and polaroid lifts. Her images show different human realities, reflections and connections to the environment. In 2022 she begun a research in Cyanotype and Climate Change in which the effects of climate change are evident through the systematic recording of values in the process of developing images of the Galapagos, thus putting art at the service of science, breaking the exoticist paradigms of creation.
Experimentation is part of human nature and, before that premise, exploring technical resources that were innovative in the past, without any doubt, had allowed me to connect to everything that surrounds me and to reinvent myself. Recreating photography experimental techniques and portraying my environment with a documentary vision, constitute an act of freedom and of introspection that not only help me to break the perfection stereotypes, but has taught me to transform my reality.
To create from a relational view, that understands the environment from a dialogic narrative, that fragments the colonial positions of the aesthetics and identity, that tells stories that help the transformation of societies, that keeps existence alive and in movement and that challenges the hegemonic powers; but essentially that generates knowledge from diversities.
I am not searching for a perfect image; I am searching an image that leads me to keep discovering.
Portfolio
Every day is different in the sea; this series of images aim to seduce the view, to see the sea with an oneiric perspective to challenge reality and provoke internal dialogues that connect to oneself. Rooting oneself does not necessarily involves a physical connection to land, recognizing each other in a determined space, may involve the connection to our dreams through observing our environment with different eyes. Every day is different in the sea, an almost surreal world that does not require to travel too deep to find our own identities. Dialogues of an island is a series of underwater photographs that are willing to break the exotic view of nature to propose a more personal view. How do we identify with those unknown creatures? how can the landscape reveal our deepest dreams? The images aim to seduce the view, to see the sea with an oneiric perspective to challenge reality and provoke internal dialogues that connect to oneself.
Contact Info
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Emailcontacto@monicapaezartist.com
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Phone0993304070
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Websitehttps://monicapaezartist.com/
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