Roxana Nagygellér

Born in 1963 in Alajuela (Costa Rica)
Lives and works in San José (Costa Rica)

 Roxana Nagygellér received a Diploma of Photography Arts and Sciences from the College of Alajuela, Costa Rica in 1997. She has also carried out independent studies of photography, videocreation, politics and cultural management, installation and set design, traditional and artistic "bindings," as well as the history of art and philosophy at various museums and artistic production centers, including the University of Costa Rica and the Cultural Center of Spain. She has produced editorial, documentary and commercial photography for several magazines. The artist has had six solo exhibitions and has participated in more than 30 group shows of photography and video in Costa Rica, France, the Dominican Republic, the Netherlands, Mexico, Guatemala and Nicaragua. She was selected for the Central American Biennial of Visual Arts in several editions, as well as for other national and international competitions

Roxana Nagygellér has submitted photographs from her series Letters to Nicolas for KB17. This is a series of portraits of migrant men in Costa Rica. This is a continuation of earlier work in which she explored the migrant experience for women. That series, entitled People in their Place, was an easier task for the artist. She states: “The work with women was fluid and fun for me. In Letters to Nicolas the approach to strangers was more complex. I felt more questioned, more watched. It was more difficult to break the ice with men. I converted the photographs into diptychs, generating a dialogue between texts, clouds and portraits. The letters are like messages carried by the wind. Written by migrant children from slums in the capital, they attempted to answer the questions: Who am I? Where do I come from? These are questions we all ask ourselves at some point in our lives.”