Antonia Fritche is a photographer and visual artist based between  Mexico City and Paris .

She is currently working as a unit still photographer, portraitist of actors, and teaches at CCC (Centro de Capacitación cinematográfica ) in Mexico City.  

Her studies include a Master's degree at le Fresnoy studio national des arts contemporains in France, a Bachelor diploma at the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten Den Haag in the Netherlands; Film theory studies in Paris VIII and a Degree in Communication at the UASLP in San Luis Potosí. 

Her personal work has been exhibited in Grand Palais in Paris, Fundación Miró and Loop’07 in Barcelona; La Bande Vidéo in Quebec,  Arts Bridge Project France-Okayama in Japan; Festival Mediarte 6.0 Monterrey, Rencontres Internationales Henry Langlois in Poitiers, France; Videoformes Clermont Ferrand, France; Festival Óptica Gijón Spain; VIIé Édition des journées de la photographie de Damas, Syria; Art Basel in Miami; Rio Int´l film festival, Rio de Janeiro; Australian Center for the moving images, Sydney and Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland. 

She has been awarded grants for production/creation and artistic residencies at Le Fresnoy - Studio National des Arts Contemporains where she got an Honorable Mentions for the installation “Washroom”; in Syria by Institut Français and Centre Culturel Français de Damas, Okayama City in Japan, Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, Le Conseil des Arts et des Lettres de Québec and Pépinières européennes in Québec City.

The subjects treated in her images always revolve around memory, the evolution of time, which is marked in the bodies and the space, she is fascinated by the empty space. The search for the ethereal evocation of light and a cinematic composition becomes the main axis of her photographic work.

afritche@gmail.com

(52) 5532705865