Alex Prager (b. 1979, Los Angeles; lives and works in Los Angeles) is a photographer and filmmaker who creates elaborately staged scenes that draw inspiration from a wide range of influences and references, including Hollywood cinema, experimental films, popular culture, and street photography. She deliberately casts and stages all of her works, merging past and contemporary sources to create a sense of ambiguity. Her familiar yet uncanny images depict worlds that synthesize fiction and reality and evoke a sense of nostalgia. Prager cultivates the surreal in her photographs and films, creating moments that feel like a fabricated memory or dream. Each photograph captures a moment frozen in time, inviting the viewer to “complete the story” and speculate about its narrative context. Prager’s work often makes the viewer aware of the voyeuristic nature of photography and film, establishing the uneasy feeling of intruding upon a potentially private moment. The highly choreographed nature of her photographs and films exposes the way images are constructed and consumed in our media-saturated society.
亞莉克絲·普拉格爾(1979年生於美國洛杉磯)是位自學成才的藝術家。她在看過當代彩色攝影之父威廉·艾格斯頓的彩色攝影作品後,深受啟發開始學習攝影。她的作品經過細心籌劃,並深受集體文化回憶影響,靈感源自好萊塢電影,實驗電影,流行文化和街頭攝影等。這些熟悉卻又陌生的圖像帶有跨時代的感覺,同時也創造了一個綜合虛構與現實的世界。她的作品曾於多個國際展覽上展出,當中最具代表性的包括:華盛頓科科倫藝術館《Face in the Crowd》(2013);阿姆斯特丹攝影博物館的「Compulsion」(2012);和紐約現代藝術博物館的《新攝影2010》。於2012年,普拉格爾獲得FOAM Paul HufAward 攝影大獎。她的作品發表在《Vogue》和《W》雜志上。她受紐約時報雜志委托創作的電影系列《Touch of Evil》獲得了2012年艾美獎。她目前於美國洛杉磯定居及從事藝術創作。