Honorable Mention
PARTICULAE
DESCRIPTION
PARTICULAE (Particularities) is a part of an image series started during the limited condition of social isolation. The artist has been photographing and exploring spaces and colorful lights emanating from windows, doors and diverse spaces. In this way, unobserved details appear in isolation. Surprises are revealed in varied and distinct compositions that actually correspond with the theme that inspired the artist.In this moment of confinement, art has been the great breath. Without art we wouldn't have culture. Art is the antidote to madness. Expressing yourself through art is an important issue and even a survival issue since we are exposed to countless challenges.
It’s also an allusion, visual interpretation of the increasingly world we are immersed by the widely connected societies, its mutant aesthetics, AI, and technology.
Can we really be the authors of all information AI offers us?
How to separate the technology offerings from our creative capacity?
Human intelligence versus technology: what will this coexistence be like on a planet threatened by the depletion of natural resources?
Is all this the failure of human contact?
It's this thinking that has enabled Verônica to capture these images in isolation and also to highlight colours as an essential factor in human life. After all, color is how the human brain interprets the electro-nervous signals coming from the eye and they didn't suddenly appear on our computers for us to click and use them, but in a much more analog and laborious way.
Thought process Verônica create and reinvent these distinct moments, resulting in diverse interpretations for a visual narrative
AUTHOR
Born in Brazil, Verônica Alkmim França lives between Brazil and Sweden. Graduated in Fine Arts, Photography and Communication. She is one the pioneers in Brazil by the introduction of Wearable Art in the early 90’s, fostering interpretations that brought with them innumerable discussions between the fine line that separate design, art and fashion and inspiring emerging generations. Her works were exhibited at Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte; Fundação Cultural de Curitiba; Casa das Rosas, São Paulo. In Europe and Asia, at the Barbican Centre, London; National Costume Museum, Lisbon; Kulturhuset, Stockholm; Dunkerskulturhus, Helsingborg; Cheongju, South Korea; Anna Akhmatova Museum in Saint Petersburg. She has participated in residencies and received honorable mentions from the institutions NIFCA, Konstnärsnänmden, Längmanska Kulturfonden, Helge Axsons Jonsson. Currently she has been working with art, always trying to take it to levels that make her part of a community and that her work can fulfill its role of communication with the public that a recognize via sensitive and pertinent questions for a better world. She was the producer and curator of Chichico Alkmim photographer's collection currently in the custody of IMS, Instituto Moreira Salles in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In recent years she has been working intensively in research and productions in which the image has been her visual narrative. Verônica's projects reverse the trend of mass consumption and she’s far from social networks, questioning the culture of excess and its changing aesthetics in today's world.She is one of the winners of FEMALE IN FOCUS International Photography Award of the British Journal of Photography's – 1894.
Verônica’s work has been published in the international journals as Aesthetica Magazine, Contemporary Art Curator, Divide, Boomer and is being structured for more choices in the field of art and culture.
