Artist Information
statement

My artistic practice is a space for experimentation and manual work based on photography and the body.
I seek to remain close to the photographic material, its limits and possibilities, allowing chance, gesture and imperfection to participate in the construction of the image. I seek to accept what occurs through analogue processes and to allow photography to retain the traces of its own transformation. I work by embracing accidents and moments of loss of control. I manipulate film and images through overexposure, deterioration, alteration, layering and different printing processes. Error ceases to be a defect and becomes a possibility for transformation.
I am interested in exploring the body, the skin, nudity and desire, as well as the relationships they establish with the spaces we inhabit: territories and ecosystems that, for me, are also other bodies. I am interested in eroticizing the image beyond normative conventions and in observing how the body can experience space through freedom, pleasure and vulnerability. In these shifts, body and environment can become indistinguishable.
I move almost entirely away from color because this decision transforms my relationship with the visible. Black and white functions for me as a unifying element, but also as a transformer and a creator of other realities.
I explore other techniques and forms of production that allow me to take the transformation of the image into other dimensions, extending photography towards installation and turning it into a spatial and material presence.

bio

Jorge Concha is a Colombian visual artist based in Nantes, France. Initially trained in Social Communication, he developed his professional career for several years in advertising and television. In 2012, he began a transition towards the visual arts with a specialization in photography at the National University of Colombia, which he later continued in France with a DNSEP from the École des Beaux-Arts de Nantes Saint-Nazaire, where he received a distinction for technical excellence in photography.
His practice focuses on analogue photography and the experimentation and transformation of the image, which he extends into printmaking, lithography, video, performance and installation. His work explores the relationships between body, desire, territory and matter.

Since 2023, he has also worked as an independent photography teacher, specializing in analogue techniques, black-and-white photography and the development of artistic projects. In 2025, he undertook an academic trip to Marfa, Texas, where he developed the project Adobe is Political, addressing the queer body, territory, architecture and memory.
His work has recently been presented in Brillos (Espace International Cosmopolis, Nantes, 2026), Coordillera (Galerie Artivistas, Paris, 2026), Le Flux est Androgyne (OHM Town, Nantes, 2026), All Over as part of Le Voyage à Nantes (2025), and Restitution (Le Lac à l’Épaule, Nantes, 2024). In 2023, he participated in the collective performance Garden of Dreams at the Institut Giacometti, Paris. In 2016, he received recognition in the Sexual Diversity Photography Competition at the University of Guanajuato, Mexico.


Exhibitions

2026
Brillos: Queer Cultures in Hispanic Latin America
Espace International Cosmopolis, Nantes, France
Le FLux est Androgine
Espace OHM TOWN, Nantes, France
Cordillera
Galerie Artivistas, Paris, France

2025
Migrations – Día del Colombiano Migrante
Consulate of Colombia, Paris, France
Don’t Stop Me Now – WAVE
Paradis Art Center, Nantes, France
All Over – Voyage à Nantes 2025
Open School Galerie, Nantes, France
Circuit Culturel Pride
Galerie Maintenant, Marfa, Texas, USA

2024
Go Wild – Voyage à Nantes 2024
Open School Galerie, Nantes, France
Restitution – Le Lac à l’Épaule
L’Atelier, Nantes, France

2023
Reflets – Dialogues d’Identité
École des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, France

Performances

Garden of Dreams
Institut Giacometti, Paris, France
April 2023

Residencies & Awards

Art Residency: Le Lac à l’Épaule
Nantes, France
2023 – 2024
Latin American Contemporary Fine Art Competition
New York, USA
2019 — Excellence Award (Photography)
Photography Contest on Sexual Diversity
Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico
2016 — Recognition

Workshops & Teaching

Black and White Darkroom Printing
École des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, France
2025
Photography with Available Resources
Universidad del Tolima, Colombia
2014

Education

DNSEP (Master’s Degree in Fine Arts) 
with distinction for technical excellence
École des Beaux-Arts de Nantes Saint-Nazaire, France
2023 – 2025
International Equivalency Program
Beaux-Arts Nantes, France
2022 – 2023
Specialization in Photography
National University of Colombia
2012
BA in Social Communication (Audiovisual Production, Photography, Art History)
Universidad de La Sabana, Colombia
2004
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