Emanuel Rodriguez-Chaves (CR)

Emanuel was born in Costa Rica in 1986. He studied Fine Arts at the University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica, and at the Kunsthochschule Weissensee, Berlin KhB, under the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). He is finalising a PhD at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, under the supervision of Sanja Pahoki and Bernhard Sachs; where he was a recipient of a Melbourne Research Scholarship. His research examines images as elements in the construction of memory and knowledge, via databases, printed photos, and digital resources. These images are enhanced and distorted, to modify meaning and agency.