Oskar Alvarado
INSOMNIA (Series)
DESCRIPTION
This series explores my personal experience with insomnia, where biological interruption of nocturnal sleep ritual gives way to a new territory of confluences. The moment in which consciousness and unconsciousness meet, where reality and fiction blur boundaries and coexist in the mind in a recreation of two parallel worlds that conform our identity. The transition between what we appear to be and our true self, which becomes visible in privacy.
The reality of each person, sometimes perturbing, takes possession of his soul in the gloom of night. Awake souls who become inhabitants of a space-time do not usually frequent. Where reminiscences of the past are mixed with frustrations, imaginary ghosts and appellants fears head toward us to a future of changing contours.
People trapped in unwanted lives, people who maybe try to flee from himself, they definitively abandon themselves or who roam aimlessly through unconcrete spaces in a sort of scenery of fragilities.
Images that buil a dreamlike world, disturbing. Fragments of life staged at night, in the complicity of night lights of the city or in the apparent calm of anonymous rooms.
AUTHOR
Born in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. He resides in Barcelona where he combines his work as a Photography teacher with the production of personal works. He holds a Bachelor´s Degree in Fine Arts of the Basque Country University, from which he receives a grant to develop the photographic project Conexiones in an artist residence in Arteleku Art Center in San Sebastián.
Later he moves to Barcelona to study at the International School of Photography GrisArt and a MA on Curatorial and Cultural Practices in Art and New Media at ESDI.
AWARDS
2018 IPA INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS. Los Angeles, EE.UU. – Winner 2nd Prize
2018 HELSINKI PHOTO FESTIVAL. Helsinki, Finland – Winner
2016 ADDIS FOTO FEST. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – Selected
2016 ATHENS PHOTO FESTIVAL. Athens, Greece – Shortlisted
2014 VOIES OFF AWARDS. Arles, France – Selected
1998 VOIES OFF AWARDS. Arles, France – Selected
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 Insomnia. La Grey, Space for Contemporary Creation. SCAN Tarragona 2016, International Photography Festival. Spain
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 Insomnia. HELSINKI PHOTO FESTIVAL. Galleria Futura and Kellohalli. Helsinki, Finland
2017 Insomnia. Hashtag2, Léucade Gallery. Murcia, Spain
2016 Insomnia. ADDIS FOTO FEST. Sheraton Addis H. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
2014 Insomnia. VOIES OFF AWARDS, Archbishop’s Palace court-yard. Arles, France
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