Nunnery Café Exhibition | Alvaro Samuel Castro

For our second Nunnery Café exhibition of the year, we’re proud to present a showcase of works by artist Alvaro Samuel Castro, featuring work across the mediums of collage, drawing, painting and sculpture.

Intertwined with the overwhelming abundance of images that surround us, Castro’s explorations are fuelled by the ability to rapidly consume, filter and manipulate visuals: seeing the relationship between one image and the next; seeing them in sequence; seeing them side by side; seeing them repeatedly.

Drawing from their vast image archive, Castro’s works make the jump from found image to artwork through a deeply intuitive process, adding new layers to the journey that the images have taken, and prompting reflection on memory, error, and the evolution and effects of digital media.

In this exhibition, Castro brings together a large body of collage works, a series of drawings inspired by social media images of donkeys, seemingly suspended in the air, as well as 3D printed sculptures, the digital models having been manipulated, or the physical printing process disrupted.