Caroline Alfonso (b. 1999) is a multidisciplinary artist born and raised in the Los Angeles Valley. Her work in photography, performance and craft all aid in an exploration of loss, memory, and how to have a chuckle in the face of adversity.
She’s curious about how we aquire all that we carry and how to make it a lighter load. Chalking it up to the past, she uses photography to meditate on her experiences as well as the experiences of those that came before her. She spends a lot of time thinking about the processes in which moments turn into memories and memories turn into histories.
She wants to know where forgotten histories go.
if they can be salvaged without those that lived it.
if a photograph can tell those (hi)stories honestly.
how her life becomes a part of those (hi)stories.
So in short, her practice is mostly in picking up fragments and making them too. At times she even puts them side by side. She sees herself mostly as an assembler.
That being said, sometimes its not all too serious and the assembling leads her to giving a copper plate an acid bath. Sometimes that bath etches a chicken-fish smoking a cigarette. Sometimes thats enough.
thanks for reading here’s my email: carolinemalfonso@gmail.com