Iliana Ortega-Alcazar
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Iliana Ortega-Alcázar (Mexico City, born 1976) is completing the MA Fine Art at Middlesex University. She works across a variety of media including printmaking, painting, and digital media, often bringing them together in the creation of both 2D and 3D installation pieces. Iliana’s practice deals with contemporary social and political issues: key concerns relate to the politics and gendered aspects of home-making, and issues relating to migration, home and belonging.
Iliana approaches her subject matter through a personal lens, and using the language of abstraction. She draws on everyday imagery relating to the domestic and the local urban environments - such as patterns found in tea towels, cleaning cloths, wall paper, pavements, graffiti, and features in domestic architecture.
For this year’s open call she is submitting five open screen monoprints and an installation piece.
The monoprints form part of a series entitled Claims of Belonging. They are inspired in imagery of weathered graffities that were once bold. They refer to the agency that exists behind claims of belonging in the context of migration, as well as the fragility and contingency of such claims.
Her installation piece combines various printmaking processes (linocut, monoprint and letter press) which are then digitally manipulated and digitally printed on fabric. This piece is a reflection on how diasporic communities are continuously engaged in the act of weaving a sense of home and belonging and the feelings that arise when these are threatened.
Iliana approaches her subject matter through a personal lens, and using the language of abstraction. She draws on everyday imagery relating to the domestic and the local urban environments - such as patterns found in tea towels, cleaning cloths, wall paper, pavements, graffiti, and features in domestic architecture.
For this year’s open call she is submitting five open screen monoprints and an installation piece.
The monoprints form part of a series entitled Claims of Belonging. They are inspired in imagery of weathered graffities that were once bold. They refer to the agency that exists behind claims of belonging in the context of migration, as well as the fragility and contingency of such claims.
Her installation piece combines various printmaking processes (linocut, monoprint and letter press) which are then digitally manipulated and digitally printed on fabric. This piece is a reflection on how diasporic communities are continuously engaged in the act of weaving a sense of home and belonging and the feelings that arise when these are threatened.
Iliana Ortega-Alcázar (Mexico City, born 1976) is completing the MA Fine Art at Middlesex University. She works across a variety of media including printmaking, painting, and digital media, often bringing them together in the creation of both 2D and 3D installation pieces. Iliana’s practice deals with contemporary social and political issues: key concerns relate to the politics and gendered aspects of home-making, and issues relating to migration, home and belonging.
Iliana approaches her subject matter through a personal lens, and using the language of abstraction. She draws on everyday imagery relating to the domestic and the local urban environments - such as patterns found in tea towels, cleaning cloths, wall paper, pavements, graffiti, and features in domestic architecture.
For this year’s open call she is submitting five open screen monoprints and an installation piece.
The monoprints form part of a series entitled Claims of Belonging. They are inspired in imagery of weathered graffities that were once bold. They refer to the agency that exists behind claims of belonging in the context of migration, as well as the fragility and contingency of such claims.
Her installation piece combines various printmaking processes (linocut, monoprint and letter press) which are then digitally manipulated and digitally printed on fabric. This piece is a reflection on how diasporic communities are continuously engaged in the act of weaving a sense of home and belonging and the feelings that arise when these are threatened.
Iliana approaches her subject matter through a personal lens, and using the language of abstraction. She draws on everyday imagery relating to the domestic and the local urban environments - such as patterns found in tea towels, cleaning cloths, wall paper, pavements, graffiti, and features in domestic architecture.
For this year’s open call she is submitting five open screen monoprints and an installation piece.
The monoprints form part of a series entitled Claims of Belonging. They are inspired in imagery of weathered graffities that were once bold. They refer to the agency that exists behind claims of belonging in the context of migration, as well as the fragility and contingency of such claims.
Her installation piece combines various printmaking processes (linocut, monoprint and letter press) which are then digitally manipulated and digitally printed on fabric. This piece is a reflection on how diasporic communities are continuously engaged in the act of weaving a sense of home and belonging and the feelings that arise when these are threatened.
Iliana Ortega-Alcázar (Mexico City, born 1976) is completing the MA Fine Art at Middlesex University. She works across a variety of media including printmaking, painting, and digital media, often bringing them together in the creation of both 2D and 3D installation pieces. Iliana’s practice deals with contemporary social and political issues: key concerns relate to the politics and gendered aspects of home-making, and issues relating to migration, home and belonging.
Iliana approaches her subject matter through a personal lens, and using the language of abstraction. She draws on everyday imagery relating to the domestic and the local urban environments - such as patterns found in tea towels, cleaning cloths, wall paper, pavements, graffiti, and features in domestic architecture.
For this year’s open call she is submitting five open screen monoprints and an installation piece.
The monoprints form part of a series entitled Claims of Belonging. They are inspired in imagery of weathered graffities that were once bold. They refer to the agency that exists behind claims of belonging in the context of migration, as well as the fragility and contingency of such claims.
Her installation piece combines various printmaking processes (linocut, monoprint and letter press) which are then digitally manipulated and digitally printed on fabric. This piece is a reflection on how diasporic communities are continuously engaged in the act of weaving a sense of home and belonging and the feelings that arise when these are threatened.
Iliana approaches her subject matter through a personal lens, and using the language of abstraction. She draws on everyday imagery relating to the domestic and the local urban environments - such as patterns found in tea towels, cleaning cloths, wall paper, pavements, graffiti, and features in domestic architecture.
For this year’s open call she is submitting five open screen monoprints and an installation piece.
The monoprints form part of a series entitled Claims of Belonging. They are inspired in imagery of weathered graffities that were once bold. They refer to the agency that exists behind claims of belonging in the context of migration, as well as the fragility and contingency of such claims.
Her installation piece combines various printmaking processes (linocut, monoprint and letter press) which are then digitally manipulated and digitally printed on fabric. This piece is a reflection on how diasporic communities are continuously engaged in the act of weaving a sense of home and belonging and the feelings that arise when these are threatened.
