Fragmented Love.

The Artist

Daniela Villareal.

MX

Born in Monterrey, Mexico in 1992. Daniela Villareal's artwork positions femininity as a space of beauty, sensuality and eroticism. She presents her images questioning the psychology of affective relationships, feminism and nature, from a contemporary woman's perspective. She begins her photographic professional establishment more than a decade ago, from short term residencies in 2018 and 2019 at New York, where she starts to generate a contemporary analog archive, also in cities like Brussels, Madrid, CDMX, Milano. In 2019. Invited as speaker at multiple photography conferences like CON FA (Congreso Nacional de Fotograffa Analoga), 2021and 2022 (Mexico), WPPI (Wedding and Portrait Photography International) 2020 and 2022 (USA). Selected in 2020 at Photos for Mexico, a curated photographic collection as an initiative for COVID19, through the photographic work of established contemporary photographers. In 2021 she is selected by LAP Foundation (Latin American Photography Foundation), in the long-standing portrait category. The same year she is invited to the collective exhibition of the call in Bogota, Colombia. Selected artist in the sixth edition of PARAC (High Performance Contemporary Art Program) 2021-2022 based in MARCO Monterrey Museum of Contemporary Art. In the current year she founds in the city of Monterrey, Mexico, an analog photographic laboratory, Bengala. Daniela experiments with contemporary art photography, video, installation and performance.