Creative - NOMINEE: Aleksandra Stone

In my ongoing project, “Longitudinal Identity Narrative,” I investigate my personal history and its relationship to the construction of a personal identity narrative. Through my self-portrait practice, I contemplate how traces of specific memories in my history—my lived experience as a woman, a refugee, a survivor of domestic violence, and a sufferer of depression lend themselves to the construction of a visual diary. My photographs, an amalgamation of several mediums including, sculpture, masks and costuming, are a whimsical marriage between the past and present, as well as an investigation of the body and its relationship to the space it occupies. Staged within the territory of private and public spaces, my photographs capture a singular moment in an ongoing narrative that documents the ways in which the body copes, heals, and carries both the burdens and the joys of our personal histories.

About author:
Aleksandra Stone, b. Zenica, Bosnia 1989, is a visual artist working with photography on ideas related to memory, the physical body, and womanhood as they relate to the construction of personal history and narrative. Stone’s work has been exhibited at galleries, institutions, and non-profit spaces within the United States and internationally including Flowers Gallery in London, the Bouzianis Museum in Athens Greece, and most recently Pen and Brush in NYC. Aleksandra Stone has been an Artist-In-Residence on Governors Island, NY, and has artworks in the permanent collection of 21c Museum Hotels. Her work has been featured in Artnet News, Refinery29, The Huffington Post, BUST Magazine, and Women's Health Magazine. Stone lives and works in New York City.