Carolina Natalia Alvarez

Carolina Natalia Álvarez (Ciclotimia) is a psychoanalyst, writer, and photographer from southern Argentina. Born and raised in San Carlos de Bariloche, a town surrounded by mountains, her way of seeing is deeply shaped by landscape and nature. Her path toward photography and writing began more than ten years ago, as part of a search to process a loss of memory that caused her to forget months of her life. This need to record has led her to find, in these languages, ways to construct and question her identity, her present, and her past. Her work revolves around what emerges within these forms —images and words— that allow for new ways of (re)knowing and unknowing oneself, of encountering what is unspoken, what is so familiar (like our way of observing the world) that it can also feel utterly strange.

Through the persistence of the landscapes she captures, she recovers a lost, static past that constantly transforms through the act of revisiting and encountering her own images —a means and an end in itself that allows her to name and connect memories, emotions, and realities that repeat, reveal, and rebuild themselves through seeing. Above all, these written and visual landscapes offer her the infinite possibility of finding and losing herself. She currently finds these landscapes in the province of Córdoba, both in her psychoanalytic practice and in the many experiences that photography and writing have allowed her to build with others.

Carolina Natalia Álvarez (Ciclotimia) will be in residence at Can Serrat in october 2025.