Alexandra Melina Tremblay is a multidisciplinary artist based in Tkaronto/Toronto. Her practice is a collective of visual sensory play through halftone imagery and exploration of cognitive disfunction such as prosopagnosia (Face blindness). Her practice predominantly focuses on screen print, however, she is also interested in integrating textiles to include tactile sensory and interactive work. Alexandra is currently studying at OCAD University, where she is completing her final year in the Print & Publication program with a minor in Illustration.
Her latest series of works, Prosopagnosia, explore humans sensations, or rather the lack thereof. Prosopagnosia is a cognitive illness that prevents the individual from recognising faces. This impairment of facial identity can cause the individual with prosopagnosia to hyper-focus on other sensations and establish details of the person they are conversing with, such as their hairstyle, clothing, perfume, and voice. Alexandra’s image series emulates this illness through the use of photos of her grandparents whose identity she has erased by blurring out their eyes, nose, and mouth.
Each photograph is from the same era – 1960s and 1970s – thus maintaining the resemblance of both of her grandparents. This helps the viewer establish similar details in the way her grandmother does her hair and the clothes she wears, and her grandfather’s glasses and facial hair. Although their facial identity is taken away, one can sense that each print has the same individuals present.
www.alexandramelinatremblay.com
@alexandramelinatremblay
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