Print Price: £110
Original Price: £1,750
Forest Dweller presents the face of a hybrid being between a woman and an orangutan, where human and animal features intertwine with subtlety, giving rise to an ambiguous and deeply expressive identity. The title echoes the etymology of the word “orangutan,” derived from the Malay orang hutan, meaning “person of the forest,” reinforcing the conceptual bridge between species.
The gaze, imbued with an almost introspective sensitivity, becomes the axis of the composition, establishing a direct connection with the viewer. Through the transparency and fluidity inherent to watercolor, skin and fur merge into a single surface, dissolving the boundaries that have traditionally separated species.
This fusion does not seek the fantastical, but rather to reveal a latent and often overlooked connection: the continuity between the human and the non-human. The portrait invites a reflection on coexistence, encouraging us to recognize in the other—even in what we perceive as distant—a form of life that is equally dignified and vulnerable.
Within this shared face resides a silent question about our relationship with the natural world and the urgency of constructing more conscious and respectful ways of inhabiting it—remembering, perhaps, that we too are, in essence, dwellers of the forest.
| Category | Endangered Species |
|---|---|
| Original size | 41 x 31cm |
| Print Size | 29.7 x 42cm |
| Rarity | Unique |
| Medium | Water colour on paper |
| Frame | Not included |
| Signature | Signed in bottom corner of painting |
Alexandra Haddad is a visual artist and curator based in Montería, Colombia. She graduated from the École cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL) in Switzerland. Her work has been presented in group exhibitions in Colombia —in Montería and Bogotá— and in Switzerland, including the cities of Lausanne, Biel, Bern, and Geneva. From 2009 to 2014 she worked as support staff in the Visual Arts department of the Ministry of Culture of Colombia.
She has served as curator for the IX (2014), XII (2017), and XIII (2022) editions of the Salón de Arte Bolivariano at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Montería campus. She was curator and coordinator of the exhibition project UNOS 4 (2015) in Montería, and curator of the group exhibitions Devant l’objectif (2015) and Aequum (2016), organized by the Association Arcos in Geneva, Switzerland.
Her curatorial practice also includes the projects Interior–Exterior: Artistic Exchanges in Times of Pandemic (2020) and Imagen Regional 9 – Caribbean Region (2020–2021), both organized by the Banco de la República. She also curated the second edition of Jagüey, Art Encounters in the Caribbean, organized by the Universidad del Norte.
Her curatorial and artistic practice has been primarily related to social, regional, and environmental themes.
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