Alejandra Dorado

Biography

Biography

Alejandra Dorado Cámara born in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Graduated with a degree in Fine Arts with a mention in painting from Universidad ARCIS, Santiago, Chile. She worked for 15 years as a professor of Graphic Design at the Bolivian Private University (UPB). Creator and director of the project "La caja verde" a visual arts workshop for young blind people.

He exhibited in the most important spaces in Bolivia. She was invited to exhibitions, festivals and residencies in Chile, the United States, Cuba, Argentina, Canada, Venezuela and Ecuador. She is the curator of CIMIENTOS international festival of performance and actionism in Bolivia.

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Work

My work appropriates various elements of our everyday life, family portraits, religious iconography, stereotyped objects, illustrations, art history; they create a path that implies crisis as a starting point and a break in the search for oneself: the death of the self.

I am interested in the game between the real, the image and the representation proposed by classical art and disarming post-modernism. I go around the body, sexuality and gender roles disturbing the moral and political order, transgression, sarcasm, irony are indispensable to me.

I consider myself to be an iconoclastic artist who circulates in the contemporary baroque style and even kitsch, although I do not believe in boxes or definitive designations.

Art is a simulacrum, it must hide something to seduce; I try to weave the threads that lead to a polysemic reading, nothing definitive that is re-created, a work that does not seek to "like" or "please" but to question.

It is very important for me to generate the work from the concept and the context in which I move, without leaving aside globality and the world art scene. I firmly believe that as contemporary artists we have the responsibility to trace history in the place where we decide to be, I do not believe in art as a pure manual technique; but as a result of research and a commitment to society.

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