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This page brings together my artistic practice in photography and collage. Both explore how small gestures and careful choices can subtly alter the way images speak.

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I’m drawn to the quiet magic of antique materials.

Working with photographs and postcards from the late 19th and early 20th century, I explore how images carry memory, identity and time within them. Through minimal interventions (often a single cut or the meeting of two images) new meanings emerge.
Working in series, the collages create connections between past and present, personal and collective experience. The female gaze runs subtly through most of the work.

The images invite the viewer to slow down and enter some sort of common visual memory.

Callanatis Disjecta (plateau royal) - ©️Alexia Struye
Callanatis Disjecta (plateau royal) – ©️Alexia Struye
DOMINIQUE (herstory) - ©️Alexia Struye
DOMINIQUE (herstory) – ©️Alexia Struye
ELIZABETH (herstory) - ©️Alexia Struye
ELIZABETH (herstory) – ©️Alexia Struye
EUGENIA (herstory) - ©️Alexia Struye
EUGENIA (herstory) – ©️Alexia Struye
La Testa del Padre Eterno (correspondence) - ©️Alexia Struye
La Testa del Padre Eterno (correspondence) – ©️Alexia Struye
Liège - Saint-Louis (cityscapes) - ©️Alexia Struye
Liège – Saint-Louis (cityscapes) – ©️Alexia Struye
Madame Dubois_ Memories of Love - ©️Alexia Struye
Madame Dubois_ Memories of Love – ©️Alexia Struye
Madame Panis - Docteur Médecin - ©️Alexia Struye
Madame Panis – Docteur Médecin – ©️Alexia Struye
Paris - Strasbourg (cityscapes) - ©️Alexia Struye
Paris – Strasbourg (cityscapes) – ©️Alexia Struye
Sweet Memories (the keepsake collection) - ©️Alexia Struye
Sweet Memories (the keepsake collection) – ©️Alexia Struye
TERPSICHORE - ©️Alexia Struye
TERPSICHORE – ©️Alexia Struye
Vacances à la mer - ©️Alexia Struye
Vacances à la mer – ©️Alexia Struye

I use photography as a drawing tool.

It allows me to compose images with precision, shaping a world that feels real, yet slightly adjusted. My photographs present an embellished reality—carefully constructed, balanced, and deliberately still. Colour, light, and form are held in quiet harmony, creating spaces that sit between fiction and the familiar. Although many of these works are made while travelling, they are not documentary. They do not describe places, nor do they tell stories. The titles refer to reality, recalling photography’s role as a witness—but the images take the viewer elsewhere.

There is no message to decode. Isn’t that a challenge?

BAUTISTA - ©️Alexia Struye
BAUTISTA – ©️Alexia Struye
CURVES 20-8 - ©️Alexia Struye
CURVES 20-8 – ©️Alexia Struye
IDA - ©️Alexia Struye
IDA – ©️Alexia Struye
LAUNDRETTE - ©️Alexia Struye
LAUNDRETTE – ©️Alexia Struye
LUJIAZUI - ©️Alexia Struye
LUJIAZUI – ©️Alexia Struye
MAJORELLE - ©️Alexia Struye
MAJORELLE – ©️Alexia Struye
SERIE ONE TWO - ©️Alexia Struye
SERIE ONE TWO – ©️Alexia Struye