Alejandra Laviada (Mexico City, 1980) completed her BFA in Painting at the Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA in Photography at the School of Visual Arts in New York. She currently lives and works in Paris. Laviada's work explores photography’s shifting role and relationship to sculpture. The images rise from the intersections between these different mediums, and aim to reflect on the ways photography can redefine the very meaning and materiality of sculpture. She uses ordinary or discarded objects as raw material, which she then deconstructs and reassembles into sculptural works. The sculptures are often photographed and re- contextualized, so that the relationship between the object and image is always at play.