Spanish Photography

OSKAR ALVARADO. "Insomnia 7" (2013). Edition: 30+2 AP. Signed and numbered. Certificate of Authenticity included. Hahnemühle Rag 308 g. Available in 2 sizes.

Spanish photographer Oskar Alvarado has won numerous prestigious awards and exhibited all around the world. This work is from his highly successful Insomnia series.

Alvarado explores his personal experience with insomnia, a new territory of confluences. The moment where reality and fiction blur boundaries and coexist in the mind in a recreation of two parallel worlds that conform our identity. Where reminiscences of the past are mixed with frustrations, imaginary ghosts and appellants fears head toward us to a future of changing contours. Fragments of life staged at night, in the complicity of night lights of the city or in the apparent calm of anonymous rooms.

Oskar Alvarado is a visual artist currently living in Barcelona. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts at Basque Country University (UPV), a MA on Curatorial and Cultural Practices in Art and New Media at Higher School of Design (ESDI) in Barcelona and a Graduate Diploma in Management, Preservation and Dissemination of Photographic Archives at Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona (UAB).

“It’s always good to see conceptual responses to a topic and this image, from a series exploring insomnia, is a great example. Capturing both the weightlessness of a dream state and the tedium and claustrophobia of sleeplessness (with the lump in the sheets perhaps being the body of a peacefully sleeping lover) there’s something beguiling about this scene – something ethereal and in tune with the feelings it sets out to describe. Alvarado’s control of lighting is sumptuous, and the decision to stage it in what feels like a gallery setting is an intriguing one that further plays with ideas of perception.” – Life Framer

https://www.oskaralvarado.com/

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