Video: Alinka Echeverria Underwater Ballet
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Photographer Alinka Echeverria has presented a mesmerizing series of photography, Lightness of Being, where she amazingly directs her underwater ballet for synchronized swimmers. Her pictures create an illusion for the viewer who finds it difficult to determine what is actually happening in the underwater show: are the swimmers dancing underwater or, on the contrary, over the water?
In her project, the artist Alinka Echeverría filmed synchronized swimming athletes, who helped bring to life a very interesting idea of the photographer, completely changing our idea of reality and the perception of space, gravity and earthly existence. The photographs are interesting in that they seem to be inverted: the water line is at the bottom and it seems that women are just hovering above the water, barely touching it. Alinka Echeverría offers the viewer a completely different perspective. This is completely different from what we are usually used to seeing in underwater photographs.
Synchronized swimmers entered a quiet underwater world, where there is no air or gravity, and surrendered to the natural environment. In this watery weightlessness, their bodies became light and free. Their synchronized movements were something like sign language. They breathed in unison, moved the same way, and supported each other in the construction of underwater human sculptures. Photographic images capture the subtle poetic connection between reality and illusion, silence and music, fragility and strength, weight and weightlessness, individual and collective, dark and light. Harmonious underwater dance has become a kind of metaphor for liberation from earthly limitations, as well as physical and psychological barriers.
Alinka Echeverria is a British photographer of Mexican origin. She studied at the International Center for Photography and holds an MA in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Edinburgh. Since 2004 she has worked worldwide as a freelance researcher, producer and photographer for a variety of clients. Her personal works have been shown at the International Center for Photography in New York, at the Pingyao Photo Festival in China, at the Cignaroli Academy of Arts in Verona, at the Blanchaert Gallery in Milan.
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