Alexandra Margarint is a photographer and visual artist. Her journey weaves through art and technology, having graduated from the Contemporary Media Practice art course from the University of Westminster in 2014 where she explored mediums such as photography and installation, and going on to work in software development for 6 years. She spent 13 years in London having had her work exhibited at Ambika P3 and The Holy Art Gallery. She has now returned to her home country of Romania where she is refocusing her energy towards artistic practices and a slower pace of life.

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Artist Statement

The shots of INNER TEXTURES were taken during the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021. At the time it did not have a name and the sole purpose was to find stability and refuge. During the permitted walks and trips outside, I took images of textures in nature that resonated with my lived experience of mental illness, aggravated then by loneliness and disconnection, by the grating confusion of news and false information and by the cycle of hope and hopelessness.

INNER TEXTURES came into being as a two-part photographic series in 2024 while collaborating with fellow artists April Ibinceanu and Martyna Benedyka as part of Dialogues: A Hybrid Art Project. Creating a safe space in which to share our experiences helped me translate the dark time of the pandemic into a visual narrative of solitude and fear, need and lack, transformation and discovery.


Traces, Photograph, 2020


Inner 
Textures