Victoria Ahrens is an Argentine-British artist, writer, and researcher based in London. Her work delves into the intersections of photography, materiality, and landscape, exploring themes of the failure of memory, the invisibility of history, and the Anthropocenic image.
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My practice involves creating multimedia installations, using photography, video projection and printmaking practices. I often work by exposing and developing photographic plates in situ and imbuing them with minerals and pigments from the landscapes I encounter. This tactile approach emphasizes the materiality of the photographic process, challenging the flatness of digital media and reintroducing a sense of touch and 'noise' as forms of resistance to historical amnesia and the accelerated consumption of images.
In this way, I look to both inner and outer landscapes as connected fragments, reflecting geological and psychological fissures. By translating analogue films into hybrid digital practices, I am looking to question the limits of digital representation and the loss of information through pixelation, evoking our relationship with sublime and political landscapes and the narratives they hold.
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Victoria holds a PhD in Photographic Theory and Practice from Birkbeck College, University of London (2017), an MA in Printmaking from Camberwell College of Art (2013), and a BA in Fine Art Sculpture from Central Saint Martins (2006). She has exhibited extensively in the UK and internationally, with her work featured in both private and public collections in the UK, Italy, Denmark, China and France. She has won numerous awards including: the Celeste Photography Prize and the Clifford Chance Purchase Prize. In addition to her artistic practice, Ahrens works as the MA Photography Course Leader at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London.
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To get in touch:
email: v.ahrens@arts.ac.uk
or insta: victoria.ahrens
Victoria Ahrens 