Alex Withey is an artist-educator who works across lens-based media, installation, and workshop facilitation. Withey’s interdisciplinary practice investigates the lives and functions of indexical and digital images, as well as the (mis)understandings of photographic truth and representation that underpin them.
In particular, he explores how memory, identity, and narrative can be reshaped through these pictorial mediations and how the archives containing them can be activated as a practical medium. Alex is currently working on a long-term project that mobilizes personal and historical archives to examine the memorial intersections between ecology, place, history, and power.