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Alexandra Diez de Rivera Confessional II (Closed), 2023 Giclée Hahnemühle photo rag Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About Alexandra Diez de Rivera is a Spanish-Argentine visual artist based in London working with photography. Her work is characterised by images of psychologically ambiguous objects and spaces that are empty but charged and marked by the passage of people and time. She is interested in psychology, memory, trace and the body. Diez de Rivera's work has been featured in publications such as Vanity Fair, FT Magazine, Vogue, and Le Point and exhibited in galleries both nationally and internationally. She is represented in collections in Europe, China, the US and UAE. Diez de Rivera's work was selected for the 2022-2023 edition of 'Small is Beautiful' at Flowers Gallery, RWA Bristol's 'Photo Open 2023' exhibition, 'London Grads Now 21' at the Saatchi Gallery and 'After the High Tide' at Cromwell Place in London, amongst other exhibitions. Diez de Rivera holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Communications from Central Saint Martins University of the Arts London and a Master's degree in Photography from the Royal College of Art. Education 2018 - 2021 Royal College of Art, London. MA Fine Art Photography 2003 - 2005 Central Saint Martins University of the Arts London. Post Graduate degree Communication and Graphic Design Select Exhibitions/Awards SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2023 RWA Photo Open Exhibition 2023. Royal West of England Academy, Bristol 2022 Small is Beautiful. Flowers Gallery, London 2022 The Winter Gala for Save the Children exhibition, Guildhall London 2022 PHotoESPANA Discoveries Portfolio Exhibition, Madrid 2022 LONDON GRADS NOW 21. Saatchi Gallery, London 2022 Travers Smith CSR Art Programme Exhibition, Travers Smith HQ London 2021 December Exhibiton. NOUA Gallery, Bodo Norway 2021 Fair Art Fair Curated I. Unit 1 Gallery, London 2021 After the High Tide, RCA Degree Show. Cromwell Place, London 2021 Selected 2021 Art Graduates. Dyson Gallery, Royal College of Art, London 2021 Can We Dance Again? Royal Victoria Patriotic Building, London 2021 Final, Not Over. Unit 1 Gallery, London 2021 Always Present. Void Collective (online) 2020 A Pervading Absence. Windows 187, Greenwich Studios, London 2019 Offprint. Tate Modern, London 2019 Royal College of Art WIP Show. Dyson Building, RCA, London AWARDS 2023 Nominee in Fine Art Photography Awards (Open theme) 2021-2022 Selected for the Travers Smith CSR Art Programme 2021 Selected for The Pupil Sphere Showcase 2021 FAPA Awards - Nominee in Fine Art Photography 2020 Critical Mass Competition - Finalist 2020 Fine Art Photography Awards - Nominee in Conceptual Photography 2019 Fine Art Photography Awards - Nominee in Portrait Photography 2019 UAL Chinese Scholar Association - Winner 2019 Fine Art Photography Awards - Nominee in Portrait Photography Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork 'A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space' Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space My practice looks at the vacant space, the hollow shell, the skin of things. I am drawn to psychologically ambiguous objects and spaces that are empty but charged and marked by the passage of people and time. I work with large format film, cameraless photography, and other creative techniques to seize the heart of my subjects, to capture their presence and aura. I'm interested in psychology, memory, and the body. My subjects have an intimate, physical relationship to the body and have been handled and inhabited, they are inanimate but loaded, exposing the affecting remnants of past lives. Resonating Spaces depicts a series of singular locations which have been inhabited but are vacant in the photograph, allowing the viewer in. Confessionals I and II are included in this series. The camera becomes an instrument for resurrecting archaic and obsolete objects, turning them into something new, allowing us to observe them and re-evaluate their cultural, po