Artist from Venezuela based in Paris
Winner of Photo Folio Review Prize 2022
Founder of La.ima.: social impact project that innovates the transmission and pedagogy of photography
Her practice
An essentially multidisciplinary artist, Oleñka Carrasco experiments and questions photography, writing, drawing and performance to address themes that are always closely related to her intimate experience. Poetry is never absent from this process of exploration: it is the backbone of her projects.
Her exhibitions are immersive experiences, photographic installations similar to true inner journeys, which awaken powerful emotions in the audience by putting them in the presence of themselves or by taking a demanding look at a social reality that she intends to make visible.
Prizes and recognitions
2022: Winner Open Call Híbridos y Rupturas. Cali Foto Fest. Cali, Colombia.
2022: Shortlisted of the Open Call. Gibellina Photo Road. Sicily, Italy.
2022: Winner of the Photo Folio Review award at the Rencontres d’Arles. Her work Maison prêtée pour un deuil will be part of the official selection of the Festival in 2023. France.
2022 : Shortlisted. The dummy of the book Maison prêtée pour un deuil finalist of the Rencontres Luma Dummy Book Award and has been exhibited with the other 9 finalists at the Rencontres d’Arles 2022. France.
2015: Shortlisted. Letters from Paris. Dummy nominated for the Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award and shortlisted among the 9 finalists. Exhibited at the Rencontres Internationales d’Arles in 2015. France.
2014: Historias Analógicas Extraordinarias. Jury Prize for the whole work. Salon des arts, Toulouse, France.
Exhibitions (SOLO)
Coming soon :
Juillet 2023 : Maison prêtée pour un deuil. Rencontres d’Arles, France.
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November 2022 : La liste de Prénoms. Espace Cariño. Paris, France.
Novembre 2022 : La liste de Prénoms. Sist’her. Paris, France.
Septembre / Octobre 2022 : Le cimetière des vivants. Iris Arles Galerie. Arles, France.
2021 : Le cimetière des vivants. Médiathèque Edmond Rostand (Fonds Photo). Paris, France.
2019 : La liste de Prénoms. Mairie du 2ème arrondissement. Paris, France.
2017 : La liste de Prénoms. Maison des Femmes de Montreuil. France
2013 : Histoires Analogiques Extraordinaires. Lomography Gallery Madrid, Spain.
Publications
2022 : Maison prêtée pour un deuil. Dummy (Looking for a publisher).
Shorlisted to the Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award.
2021 : Le cimetière des vivants. Self Published. 2º edition. Sold out.
2019 : Le cimetière des vivants. Self Published. 1st edition. Sold out.
2018 : La Latitud de los pasos.. Ediciones Casiopea. Espagne.
2017 : La Nostalgia es una revuelta. Tigres de Papel. Espagne. Nominated to Prix Livre Photo-Texte de l’Année (“Photo-Text Book Prize of the Year”) and exhibited at Rencontres Photographiques d’Arles, 2017.
2015 : Lettres de Paris. Dummy. Shorlisted to the Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award and exhibited in Rencontres d’Arles, France. (Looking for publisher)
Exhibitions (Groups)
June 2022 : Le cimetière des vivants. Invernario. Festival Fotografia Europea OFF. Reggio Emilia, Italy.
May 2022 : Restitution Mentorat. ENSP. Arles, France.
2021 : S’écouler Performance with Lucía Sanchez Napal. Point Ephémère. Paris, France.
2021 : La multiplicité de l’autofragmentation. Biennale d’Art contemporain Campagn’ART. Parisot, France.
2020 : Simbiosis. Exhibition and Performance with Lucía Sanchez Napal. Point Ephémère. Paris, France.
2020 : La liste de Prénoms. Exposition L’Amour et la violence. MPAA, Breguet. Paris, France.
2019 : La liste de Prénoms. Exposition Sorcières d’aujourd’hui. MPAA, Breguet. Paris, France.
2019 : Le cimetière des vivants. Vedere Parole :Mostra Internazionale dell libro d’artista. Rossano, Italie
2019 : Le cimetière des vivants. Parcours Voies Off, Rencontres Arles.
La Casa de la Tapicera, with Nía Diedla.
2018 : La liste de Prénoms. 3 jours 1 femme, with Camille Gharbi and Arianna Sanesi. Galerie L’Aberrante, Montpellier, France.
2018 : La liste de Prénoms. Symposium PhotoTexte engagée. MSH-CNRS Paris.
2017 : La liste de Prénoms. Performance 25 Nov, Place de la République. Paris
2015 : La Multiplicité de l’autofragmention. Immix Gallery. Paris, France.
2015 : Lettres de Paris. Rencontres Photographiques du 10ème 2015. Paris, France.
2013: Histoires Analogiques Extraordinaires. Exhibited in Salon des Arts de Saint-Jory.
Her educational background
After graduating in Literature at the Universidad Central de Venezuela, she obtained a Master’s degree in Humanities, specializing in interpretation and dance theory, at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain.
Since 2015, she has been studying artistic photography and fine arts in Paris.
In 2022, she was one of the 7 selected to follow the Professional Mentorship program at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Photographie d’Arles with Susan Meiselas, Gilles Saussier and Pierre Leguillon, for her work with photographic archives and memory.