The MAST Foundation Announces the Winner of the Sixth Edition of the MAST Photography Grant on Industry and Work

The winner is Alinka Echeverría (Mexico City, 1981) for her Apparent Femininity installation.

In her three-part installation, Alinka looks back at the role of women in the history of cinema and computer programming, in order to look forward at the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Grace, named after the paradigm breaking Grace Hopper, is an animation derived from a Berenice Abbott photograph { from the MAST collection} of an anonymous female programmer at work. Presented as an LED curtain, it is accompanied by a music created by the inventor of graphical sound, Daphne Oram. Hélène, is a installation of glass plate negatives showing solarized images of the hands of female editors. The gesture of isolating, solarising and printing onto glass reactivates the creative act of editing and crystallises this little known history. In Ada the artist pays homage to Ada Lovelace, the mathematician defined by many as the first programmer in history. Through a mosaic of digital collages she reactives archival imagery and explores the biographies of such pioneers in juxtaposition with women left unnamed, weaved together with archetypal notions of femininity.