Ana Casal

Ana Casal was born in Argentina, in the south of the province of Buenos Aires. She grew up in a family where art and music were everywhere. She currently lives in Buenos Aires.

Between 1978 and 1980, she studied art history in Madrid, followed by language and literature courses.

In 1998, she obtained a scholarship from the Cultural Service of the Embassy of France in Argentina and continued her studies at the University of Caen, France.

Subsequently, she enrolled at the Argentine School of Photography (EAF) and participated in workshops and seminars in Buenos Aires, Paris, Arles and New York which contributed to deepening her artistic research.

Then, she took part in numerous group and individual exhibitions.

Photo Patagonia (2015), Santa Cruz, Argentina. Alicia D'Amico Gallery, A Journey, Different Times (2016).

His photographs won the Creativity Prize of the University of Belgrano (2017) (2018). It is part of the exhibition at the Maison des Peintres as part of the Rencontres de la Photographie (2018).

Galerie Photoeil presents the screening of its series Les Marcheurs Attentifs at the Rencontres Cinématographique et de la Photographie in Cerbère-Portbou, France. (2018)

At the Festival of Light “For Life" (2018) his Fracciones series is presented at the Decorative Art Museum, at the Haroldo Conti Cultural Center of Memory, Lumiton Audiovisual Museum, at the San Martín Cultural Center, Argentina.

In 2019, she published her first book Fracciones which is available in many libraries, bookstores and art galleries around the world.

In 2020, she is exhibiting at Arcimboldo Art Contemporain.

His photographs are now part of several private collections in Argentina, Brazil, the United States and France.

She is represented by La galerie Lala Contemporary in Toronto, Arcimboldo Arte Contemporáneo in Buenos Aires and Hegoa Galerie in Paris.

" I find that my photographs have their origin in my personal universe. I share with the viewer a story that he can appropriate and easily make his own. Punctuated by a network of light lines, my imaginary world follows in the footsteps of its own history It is an invitation to discover a world full of fiction where darkness, lights and shadows are omnipresent.

The exact locations of the shots are not very important even though I took them in different countries. All that matters is the intimacy and sensitivity that they reveal. My reality focuses on small luminous details shrouded in darkness and on enigmatic characters. In this world, I find myself, among lights and shadows and, what I highlight or leave in silence . "

Ana Casal

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