"In der Fremde," Untitled, 2017 Photograph

Born: New York City Romeo Alaeff's work varies in execution, but as a whole "explores the experience of inhabiting liminal zones, those architectural spaces, psychological and physical states in which contradictions collide. In these unlikely spaces and fleeting situations, dissonant perspectives, beliefs, emotions, sounds and rhythms briefly coexist. For Alaeff, such unsettling in-between states, where synthesis and separation are only infinitesimally differentiated, contain the potential for both terror and beauty. In practices that include documentary, video/ film installation, photography, drawing and music, Alaeff pirouettes on the thin line between fusion and confusion, gently pulling at the seams that hold the fictional fabric of reality in check." (From "Mobilizing Difference" by Nuit Banai)