Who is Juan Alberto?

Juan is a visual artist and curator born in Bogotá and currently based in Lenapehoking (New York City). They make lens-based works with the aid of film and digital cameras, flatbed scanners, and found imagery with a focus on queer intimacies, relationships, and memories. They also write about the politics of memory, the violence of forgetting, and the role of the artist as creators of non-traditional archives.

Why Lens Memory?

Lens Memory is an opportunity to connect with a community through a focused forum of arts writing, personal developments, and experimental ideas. I am interested in the relationship between photography and memory. The tensions that exists when we remember something, but an image tells us otherwise.

Memory is precious, it keeps us alive, and we must protect it.

Feeling the negative effects of social media on my own memories and overall quality of life, I wanted to take it all back to basics. The newsletter format allows for a more thoughtful, careful, and intimate approach to sharing with an audience who understands and consents to this exchange.

Subscribing to Lens Memory allows you to receive these texts directly to your mailbox (avoiding the endless scroll) and staying up to date with my art, research, and writing practice.

Thank you again for your time.

Besos y abrazos,

Juan