Andrea Rocha: Still Life

Two energies, or two competing forces, are at work in the photographic montages of Andrea Rocha (b. in Rio de Janeiro). These warring visual phenomena, which we could refer to by what Sartre called the real and the ‘irreal’, come down to the manipulation of skin and paper in the collaged space of the artworks. Rocha, by turns across several projects, will either insert her own face into a glossy world of printed images, a real body attempting to become part of the photographic surface.