Alice Miceli

Discipline: Visual Arts

Based In: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Year at Millay: 2025

Alice is a Brazilian visual artist and photographer whose work interrogates landscapes scarred by historical violence, environmental collapse, and conflict. Based between Rio de Janeiro and New York, her practice combines investigative fieldwork with technical innovation to reshape photographic processes in light of these issues. Notable projects include the “Chernobyl Project”, where she developed a radiographic method to document invisible gamma radiation in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, and “In Depth (minefields)”, a visual mapping of post-conflict terrain in regions of Cambodia, Colombia, Bosnia, and Angola, leveraging how the photographic medium’s intrinsic geometric principles (e.g, perspective and depth of field) influence both the observable content within the frame and the photographer’s physical positioning at the time and place of image capture; particularly crucial when positioning, i.e., where one places one’s feet on the ground, is the most critical element. In this way, this work sought to illuminate the latent dangers posed by landmines and explosive remnants of war and conflict within the very structure of the image. Her work has been exhibited at major biennials, including those in São Paulo and Istanbul, and has been honored with prestigious awards such as the PIPA Prize, the Cisneros-Fontanals Award.