DVAA Member since 2018
Eddy Rhenals
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About:
“I was born and raised in Colombia. After obtaining a bachelor’s degree in architecture I came to the US in 2007 to study English. While studying English, I took a photography class which propelled me to a Bachelor of Science in Photography at Drexel University. In 2015, I was recruited by the University of Delaware to join their MFA program. This multidisciplinary MFA program connected me with many artists and media that inspired an evolution and broadening of my photographic work. I started using other media to illustrate my ideas and concepts such as drawing, painting, embroidery, and video among others, but always returning to photography as the base point of any work.”
Artist Statement:
“My work is an investigation of the visual codes of my surroundings with the purpose of creating a language that reflects the questions triggered by my experiences and interests. I channel this search through several projects that even though use different media, visual codes, and subjects, they are all generated by the same group of inquiries. One of my main visual languages deals with the feelings of isolation and solitude and the love/hate relationship with empty spaces. These images seek to portray how a person can feel disconnected from the world around and how one can find comfort in solitude. As a result of this comfort, I also started studying my surroundings meticulously in search of those simple moments of our everyday that are so sublime that seem to defy the border between reality, fiction and the surreal. These same boundaries are explored as it refers to the different processes of how memories are created, stored, mixed, ranked, forgotten, and even made up giving us a sense of reality by using a process that itself seems surreal. As a complement to these questions about isolation and reality, I also investigate the line between representation and documentation, how a particular medium can enhance the representation of an idea, and when a creative process that is based on the scrupulous attention to detail and over-control can give way to chance as part of the visual language. ”
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