Portrait nominee

Universal Demons is a confession, a cry of our fears.
A response to our own discontent, turning our pain into something beautiful.
We allow ourselves to encounter the taboo, exploring our concealed sides through the creation of irreverent realities.
Demons that act as an armor against our anxiety in a world of confusion and mental exhaustion.
A reflection that dances between the grotesque and the absurd, a typical gesture of LAFAKE's symbolic, ironic and unclassifiable imagery.
Universal Demons invites the viewer to indulge in parallel worlds, to groan and accept their demons in a society that does not remain silent.
LAFAKE flirts with vulgarity in its affection for Kitsch, selecting its weirdness, pursuing it, framing it, processing it, and titling it:
"EMBRACE YOUR DEMONS."

LAFAKE, represents the collaborative work of Jose Luna “Stage & Costume designer” and Irene Aparici “Graphic designer & Photographer”.
Inspired by the Docufiction, LAFAKE tries to capture reality as it is by inserting elements of fiction, a characteristic of his work.
These works aim to highlight the imperfection of beauty, the duality between what it is real and what is fictitious. An extravagant aesthetic context loaded with surrealism, kitsch and pop elements.
With a passion for visual eloquence LaFake tries to establish its own place between a social reality and art.
“Too true to be fake,”
• 2023 Exhibition “Universal Demonds” Gallery Spectrum, Zaragoza (Spain).

• 2022 Exhibition “Universal Demonds” Gallery Casa de la Imagen, La Rioja (Spain).
• 2020 Virtual Exhibition in Casa de la Imagen, La Rioja (Spain)
• 2018 Exhibition "Galáctica” in Casa de la Imagen , La Rioja (Spain)
• 2017 Exhibition "Galáctica” gallery Spectrum, Zaragoza (Spain)
• 2016 Photography collaboration for LUUPS magazine, Dortmund (Germany)
• 2016 Exhibition Hellerau Portrait, Dresden (Germany)
• 2015 Exhibition in Café des Artistes, Berlin (Germany)
• 2015 Exhibition Kunstbox Dortmund , Dortmund (Germany)
• 2015 Honorific Award at MIFA Photography festival, Moscow (Russia)
• 2014 PhotoEspaña , Madrid (Spain)