Alinka Echeverría is a Mexican-British artist, working across moving image, photography and installation. With a background in anthropology, Echeverría challenges conventional narratives around identity and home, offering unique perspectives into a range of cultural contexts through the subjects represented.
In this talk, Echeverría will give background behind her latest projects and the wider political and social issues that impact her work.
Moderated by artist Michelle Williams Gamaker.
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Biography
Alinka Echeverría is a Mexican-British artist and visual anthropologist working in multiple media. She holds a Masters degree in Social Anthropology and Development from the University of Edinburgh (2004). After working on HIV prevention projects in East Africa, she pursued a post graduate degree in Photography from the International Center for Photography in New York (2008). Her research based work brings a contemporary and critical approach to questions of visual representation.
Her work has been widely exhibited at international venues, including solo exhibitions at Preus Museum, Norway’s National Museum of Photography, the Johannesburg Art Gallery, Les Rencontres de la Photographie Arles and The California Museum of Photography at UCR. Her work is part of several public and institutional collections including The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Musée Nicéphore Niépce, BMW Art & Culture and The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. Recent commissions include the Swiss Foundation of Photography and BBC Four, for whom she presented a three part series: The Art That Made Mexico.
Michelle Williams Gamaker, is a London based artist filmmaker. Through an interrogation of cinema and its artifice, she proposes critical alternatives to colonial and imperialist storytelling in early 20th-century British and Hollywood studio films.
Williams Gamaker explores cinema history by using the tools of cinema against itself to sabotage the casting process and recasts characters as fictional activists. She is joint-winner of the Film London Jarman Award, and since 2014 has been developing Fictional Activism, including her Dissolution Trilogy (2017-19) and The Bang Straws (2021), which won Best Experimental Short for the Aesthetica Short Film Festival (ASFF) 2021.
Williams Gamaker’s 2022 Film London Production Award enabled her first film in Fictional Revenge: Thieves (2023) which premiered at her solo exhibition Our Mountains Are Painted on Glass at South London Gallery, touring to Dundee Contemporary Arts and Bluecoat, Liverpool (2023-24). Thieves won ASFF’s Best Experimental Film in 2023. Recent films include Oberon (2023) and the forthcoming Strange Evidence (2025).
Williams Gamaker is a Reader in BA Fine Art, Goldsmiths and currently a British Academy Wolfson Fellow (2022-2025)
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