*Scroll down for english version * „Die Schönheit kann ebenso gut aus der Hölle stammen wie aus dem Himmel“ Charles Baudelaire Frauen, stereotype Schönheitsideale und der Kampf um körperliche Attraktivität aus einer weiblicher Perspektive stehen im Mittelpunkt von Alejandra Baltazares Kunst. Werden von ihr nicht nur be- und verarbeitet, sondern ebenso arbeitet sich die Künstlerin selbst daran ab, wird bisweilen selbst Teil ihrer Kunst: Multimedial mit Performances, Installat

Her series recreate psycho-geographies and atmospheres of our contemporary times, from documents to more playful, metaphorical narratives about the ephemeral nature of beauty and fashion.The photographic record has been an important part of collective memory, it brings new portraits to reality whose "faithfulness" allows us to enter a partial realism to build new versions of a story. In her images, the dividing line between reality and metaphor is placed at stake, since every

Akihabara is well known not only as electronics town but also as Maid Cafe town. At Maid Cafes, the girls wear costumes of maids and serve the guys. But the guys never touch the girls. They just talk and play games. Nothing any more. What's fun? Because such guys are very shy and cannot communicate well with girls in their ordinary lives. They enjoy virtual love with roll playing game by paying money. On the streets of Akihabara, many maids  provide their flyers to the guys a

Writing on others' works is as risky a business as it is potentially interesting. Perhaps the most valuable aspect of the exercise is the act of forcing oneself to observe the work, seeking to uncover the nuances and truths which make it revealing and unique. In the work that Alejandra Baltazares presents at the Centro Cultural Border there are many nuances and highlights after a six-year process of research and production that has now come to an end. It is not the same to lo

Analysing the evolution of her works over the years, one can immediately see that her interests centered on superficial aspects of the search for beauty, paying particular attention to what is there for all to see. An example of the above could be found in showing the violence and invasiveness of cosmetic surgery for what it is. But eventually her interest transformed into a much more subtle exercise, such as centering the spotlight on emotional factors and arguments. Further