Andy Freire
Bio
Andy Freire has developed an artistic practice that brings together painting, analog and digital photography, drawing, and printmaking, exploring different materials and reproduction processes. Drawing acts as a connecting thread between these practices, allowing images to move from one technique to another and transform throughout the process.
Her work begins with reproduction techniques and shifts them toward analog processes aimed at creating unique images centered on detail. Without seeking a figurative outcome as the primary focus, she investigates the forms and lines found in nature as a starting point for exploring the transformations of the image and the relationships that emerge between different techniques and materials.
Statement
Cápsula
The Cápsula project explores the contemporary use of historical systems of photographic production and reproduction, incorporating current tools such as the generation of digital negatives. Rather than simply recovering historical techniques, it seeks to understand and incorporate their material, technical, and temporal specificities into contemporary artistic practice, investigating how they shape the materiality, singularity, and circulation of the image in the present.
Cápsula brings together works produced through historical photographic processes, such as albumen printing and kallitypes. In 2025, ten artists from Studio Vivian Galban specialized in these historical processes in New York, alongside research conducted in historical archives.
Throughout 2026, this research continued and deepened at Studio Vivian Galban in Buenos Aires, together with specialists, expanding the experimentation around these processes and their possibilities within contemporary photographic practice.
Additional information
Hahnemühle Platinum Rag 300 gsm
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
