ABOUT

Born in Lima, Perú in 1980 currently based in Madrid. Her first studies in photography started in The School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City and she finished her in Lima, Perú in Centro de la Imagen. Searching for personal healing, she then studied Expressive Art Therapies as a way to dig deeper into photography and change. Grace has worked as a food photographer for many years, collaborating with Peruvian editorials like Armonía de Sabores with Apus Graph which had a mention in Art Gourmand París in 2011. Her work has been shown in collective exhibitions and, in 2018 she won the Second Prize in Pampa Energía FOLA in FOLA Fototeca Latinoamericana in Buenos Aires, Argentina with the work Acto Fallido. She studied a Master in Photography in PhotoEspaña in 2021.


STATEMENT

Since returning to fine art photography my interests have been in exploring new methods to challenge the medium while constructing a visual voice. Using photography as a starting point, my practice skirts the boundaries of the documentary, the imaginary and the poetic by creating alternative universes and narratives related to identity and memory. I revisit historical technical aspects of photography as well as technology and new ways of image-making, often mixing a lens based practice with other practices in which I can make use of my hands. I attempt to process thoughts and things that occur inside and outside of me in a continual movement between the past, present and possible future. Error, anti-aesthetics and the lack of visual information are resources present in my work both for symbolic production and for constructing new visual possibilities.

Image made by Laura May Grogan