Aliette Bretel (n. 1981, Lima - Peru) . Peruvian-born Visual Artist and Photographer living between Cambridge and Lima. Graduated from El Centro de la Imagen (Lima) in 2004, followed by studies of documentary photography in the association of photojournalists of the Argentinean Republic (ARGRA) in 2005.
My photos are often presented in exhibitions, art fairs, festivals, and events. They have been shown in London, Cambridge, Chicago, Lima, Buenos Aires, Ankara, Berlin, Barcelona, Zürich, and Venice.
My body of work is divided between fine art and documentary photography, tackling both subjects in different and unique ways, but at the same equally loading them with my own inner world, capturing what exists beyond the obvious.
My documentary photographic work examines the unnoticed and often overlooked aspects of everyday life, exploring both the mundane and the extraordinary elements that are easily taken for granted, capturing unique moments that reveal otherwise hidden depths beneath the surface of society, bringing to light the beauty of the simplicity of the apparent monotony of everyday life.
On the other hand, my artistic work has been defined by a strong reference to memories, the past and the passing of time. Using analogue and digital cameras, cardboard and toy cameras, digitised film, and digital video, my body of work is a unique and timeless journey that merges the physical with the intangible. With a visual, ethereal and subtle poetic narrative, my images impacted the viewer's emotion, urging them to immerse in their own memories, like an urgent call to remember themselves.