Felipe Chavez x Alexander Ekholm
For this collaborative exhibition, photographer Alexander Ekholm and artist Felipe Chavez wanted to contrast and harmonise their two distinct media. The photography of Ekholm served as the basis for Chavez’ paintings, and in reverse Chavez’ artistic persona inspired the creative direction and progression of the photographs.
Together, these works seek to complement each other by channeling and enhancing their inherent characteristics: the ability of digital photography to quickly freeze several given moment in time, and the poetic liberty possible through deliberate artistic reinterpretation in ink.
Felipe Chavez (@_felipechavez), a Colombian-born artist, uses Indian ink washes on heavy paper to explore his sense of self through his relationship with identity, sexuality, and space. Chavez’s introspective exploration of belonging continue in ‘He Then Saw Eric’ and ‘When Eric Looked Away’, where he interprets his human form and his emotion through gestural strokes that evoke a dialogue of exploration of the body between the viewer, the subject and the artist.
The work of Swedish photographer Alexander Ekholm (@aekhlm) revolves around queering of arbitrary norms and questioning of social constructs. Presented here are ‘Office’, ‘Locker’ and ‘Studio’, three Aluminium Dibond Prints exploring closeted escapism and desire in environments that are still heavily dominated and defined by cis-het men.
