Alina Gallo

In 2012, I began a series of contemporary miniature paintings and large site-specific installations chronicling the events unfolding in the Middle East and North Africa region and their representation in Western media.  

Our digital landscape puts us in contact with a sea of fragmented and stratified documentations that come forth on social media platforms filtered by chance as well as by multiple, calculated and unknowable internal dialectics and interests. 

My work samples and combines imagery and information from this multitude of raw-footage, photographs and documentary snippets, as well as from traditional media outlets, reflecting both a fragmented understanding of these accounts and the conscious and unconscious attempts to recompose a potential reality.