Discover the contemporary work of alex. rio
Thursday, June 10, 2021
10:09 PM
As a self-taught photographer, having found my way through the world of my mother, herself a photographer, I naturally gravitated towards art photography, which is my "playground"...
Through my exhibitions, I was able to introduce the viewer, beyond photography, to current issues close to my heart, making them witnesses and actors of the information I wish to defend!!! such as "Abused Women" , the "Bataclan attacks, against freedom of expression...
I also worked on bodily movement through underwater staging... and everyday situations: dancing, working, reading, which I transpose into unusual places to make these banal everyday gestures extraordinary!!!
To allow the viewer to rethink these situations.
I will be exhibiting at the end of June in Monaco at EXPOMETRO (exhibition of collective works)
Through my photographs, I bring the viewer to Position yourself regarding the subject matter
"DON'T BE A SPECTATOR OF DESPAIR BUT OF RENEWAL."
(Alexandra Rio's catchphrase)
CV & Exhibition List - "The Girl with Blue Hair" Gallery Exhibition (November 2015)
Architectural study of Minutes
- Casino de Jeux Frejus Exhibition
"Liberty" in tribute to the victims of the Bataclan attacks (October 2016)
- "The Image" Exhibition at the Lycée St. Exupery and St. Raphael: debate with students on the image and what it hides (January-February)
- Casino de Jeux Frejus Exhibition
"CIRCUS" to denounce childhood illnesses through photographs of circus performances from the 1930s (October 2017) with the Cassandra association.
- Casino de Jeux Frejus Exhibition
"The Woman" to denounce violence against women, and children who witness this violence.
(October 2018) with the Women Safe & Children.
-May 2019: Official photographer for Orezza at the Roland Garros/Monté Carlo
- EXPOMETRO Exhibition in Monaco
International collective works in the streets of Monaco (from June 29 to July 5, 2021)
- Casino de Jeux Frejus Exhibition.
"Being and Water." (July 2021)
Exhibition in New York City/Manhattan
Group exhibition on the street from December 13 to December 18, 2021...
Website alexrio.book.fr
My approach is to invite the viewer to position themselves regarding the banal scenes of life (dancing, singing, cooking, etc.) that I move to unusual places, and to reclaim them to become fully aware of them. And no longer see them as banal moments but as very present ones. I don't like to stay in my comfort zone; photography is, for me, a risk to take to achieve a final image full of insolence and poetry... my best moments!!!!!
Taking the viewer away to the emotions of childhood, adolescence... through images that send them back to his own moments, creating surprise, and that little smile appearing at the corner of the lips and letting the soul flow towards the poetry of these "almost unconsciously forgotten" moments.
I wish to show my vision of the world through the emotions that my images convey... emotions that bring us back to the essential, the poetry of a moment, the unexpectedness of a memory so true of insolence.... emotion is the continuity of our soul...
