Alhadeff arranges the space, objects, and bodies (including her own) in such a way that blurs the lines that separate them. This luminescent excess inhabits both the domestic and the animalistic. The characters become hybrids of machine and animal that populate dream-like worlds. The quotidian in relation to the sensual spectacle sets up a ritualistic narrative - a strewn collision of bodies and space is simultaneously purposeful and haphazard. Through a carnal visual language, these polymorphic bodies are engaged in ambiguous ceremonies.

Alhadeff photographs explore the body as a membrane between sensuality and restraint, surrender and resistance. Her intention is to disrupt the distinction between the interior and exterior of both psychological and physical experiences. Her images illuminate a call and response between anxiety and beauty: Anxiety in the moment of recognizing the familiar within the unfamiliar - feeling a connection with the other, yet clinging to a separate identification; beauty in the moment of responsiveness to our undeniable connectedness.

Cara Judea Alhadeff, born in Boulder, Colorado, attended Sarah Lawrence College and graduated from Penn State University. Internationally, she has exhibited and won awards for her photography and for her published essays in Cultural Studies. She recently exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.  Her photographs are part of their permanent collection, as well as the collection at The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. She has had solo exhibitions in Korea, Germany, Portugal, France and Belgium, and throughout the US--including San Francisco’s City Hall and the Oakland Federal Building.