Alejandra Laviada (Mexico City, 1980) completed her BFA in Painting at the Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA in Photography and Video 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. T he sculptures are often photographed and re - contextualized, and in doing so, the relationship between the object and image is always at play . Laviada’s multidisciplinary practice moves from the concrete toward the abstract, and her work incorporates photography, painting, sculpture and video. Laviada ’s work has been exhibited widely and is in the permanent collection of the Jumex Museum, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the Centro de la Imagen in Mexico, and the Bank of America Collection, among others.