Carolina Cardich
Bio
CAROLINA CARDICH (Lima, 1979).
She studied the Master in Research in Art and Creation at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Complutense University of Madrid, Photography at the Image Center of Lima and Biologist at the La Molina National Agrarian University.
Her work has been presented at festivals such as Cosmos Books at Los Encuentros de Fotografía in Arles – France, La Nuit de L`Instant in Marseille-France and Paraty em Foco in Rio de Janeiro. ICPNA National Photography Award in 2014 (Third prize). Honorable mention at the Trujillo 2017 National Meeting of Visual Arts and in Paraty em Foco 2014. She has been a finalist in the Ibero Americano photography contest Nexofoto, in the Roberto Villagraz Scholarships from the EFTI school in Madrid and Repsol Lima Photo. Selected to participate in the Laboratory Recent Trajectories in Contemporary Artistic Theory and Practice directed by Max Hernández Calvo at Wu Gallery in 2014, as well as in Discoveries of the Photoespaña International Photography Festival in 2013. Her project L'animot is selected to form Part of the Symposium Being Beyond Boundaries: Dissolving Species Hierarchy in Contemporary Culture at Kingston University in London.
Her work has been exhibited individually in Lima and in collective exhibitions in Arles, Marseille, Madrid, Valencia, London, Lima, California, Rio de Janeiro, Bogotá and Cuba.
Statement
STATEMENT
My training comes from two paths that have been interrelated when configuring my work, on one hand, my previous experience as a biologist and on the other hand my studies in the field of photography and art.
I am interested in working with the limits of what we understand as nature and culture. In times of global environmental problems, art is a way to question and keep the problem open, as well as to find channels for discussion, new visions and ways of articulating the world.
In my photographic series I sometimes work based on a specific idea and other times more intuitively. I consider that photography is an ideal medium to work on the subjective, always under the individual and emotional filter during the creative process.
