From issue: #27 Emerging Talent
Alcira Angelo, ELTIGREMEPERSIGUE
ELTIGREMEPERSIGUE is an intimate photographic odyssey that explores self-discovery through the emotional and psychological terrain of duelo, a word that evokes both the idea of struggle and the inner reckoning that follows loss. Conceived as a collective visual diary, the project comprises a series of portraits made in everyday domestic spaces, each one speaking to the metaphorical tigers that haunt us in private.
Angelo confessed to feeling as though a tiger were constantly chasing them. Their friend Arturo looked at them and said, “The tiger has given you what it gave Sombra,” referring to a character in the film Güeros. That moment landed with force. Like Sombra, they realised they were a poet pursued by something spectral and unresolved. The tiger was panic, fear and grief, made visible.
This insight came during a period of intense personal upheaval. Angelo had lost their best friend, who had passed away the year before. They had lost their cat, described as a daisy-stealing criminal. And they were in the process of returning to themselves, re-recognising their identity as a non-binary person. A year marked by anxiety and panic attacks gave shape to the tiger and marked the beginning of the duelo. The result is a visual dialogue with the self and with others, unfolding through a quiet but insistent collective self-portrait.
Born in 1996, Alcira Angelo is a Bolivian artist working across photography, writing and communication. They studied Social Communication Sciences at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés in Bolivia, and later pursued Public Communication through the Faculty of Communication and Image at the University of Chile and the Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies in Germany. Their practice reflects on themes such as the body, geography, serendipity and the everyday. Their work has been published in regional and international platforms and shown in exhibitions across Bolivia and Ecuador. They have taken part in artist residencies in Chile and Argentina, and in 2023, they published their first collection of poems, Añadí poco de texto.
