Ana Andra
Ana Andra is an artist from Buenos Aires. She has a degree in advertising, and has worked for different production companies, such as Pioneer
Productions, Film Planet, Nunchaku and Peluca Films. She has been involved in different projects relating to the preservation of cultural identity of indigenous groups in Patagonia through the realization of workshops, and the commission of sellable pieces made following the tradition of local handicrafts.
As an artist she is engaged in the practice and theory of photography, and uses collage as a tool to develop her two-dimensional and three-dimensional pieces. In 2011, she moved to Europe where she has been selected to take part in different residencies. Her work has been exhibited in galleries in Buenos Aires, Barcelona and Berlin. She has worked for the ABC Contemporary Art Fair Berlin and for Tomas Sarraceno. Currently, she works for the Johann König Gallery in Berlin.
Project
Since a couple of years ago, Ana has been developing her artistic practice as a means to establish a dialogue between her work and the place she inhabits in order to impregnate the work with meaning. Photography allows her to recapture the city. The image she creates disintegrates in form and color, depth and figure, elements that she intertwines to generate her own cosmology.
As she says:
‘As artists, we are not simply tourists. Travel is often part of our work. To produce in other places permits a shift in our spatial and temporal routines. Perhaps this also implies a change in our way of thinking and producing art. In fact, as it happens at times, we are tourists in our own place of residence. As artists, we visit places where what is different becomes exotic and what is exotic is in danger to lose its scene and transform into a trophy of our trip.’
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