Biography

Aldara Ortega's photography  explores the gradual opening of dialogue between formal subjects and an underwater world. Her images invite the viewer to decipher the unique and slow-moving  manner with which water can  enhance, disturband elevate a moment intime.

A native of Spain, Ortega has morphed her degree in fashion desing, fromMadrid’s Fashion Design Superior Center (CSDDM) and her experience as an international model into a fine artphotographer.

Through underwater photography, Aldara has found a means to express thebeauty, freedom,and joy we experience when elements such as water, light, and shadow interplay with the human body. The result is a series of  images that seem almost like paintings, each weaving colors into the dream-like liberation ofbeing underwater. Her photography aims to capture the essence of the underwaterworld, and  submerges us in her vision that accentuates the simultaneously refracting and reflecting tendencies of water as it veers towardsabstraction.

For her current investigations focusing on water, her creative process involves the manipulation of the interplay between light and shadows, water and form, to create specific patterns of refracted light. Refractions, Reflections, Liquid Desert, and Agua Viva each take on a specific theme. This four-part series forms the exploration of light on underwater bodies to the simulation of a submerged desert land scape to the emulation of textiles coming to life as an extension of the female form.

Artist Statement

The main focus of my art has been to express the beauty of unfettered free domand joyIexperience while being in water.Through my artwork, Iaimtogive visual form to this magical light-infused world where muted sound, sense of weightlessness, and mesmerizing light take me to an energized meditative state.