Alma Haser

Part 2 of the Empty Red Carpet Project: a series of provocative artworks created by Award Winning artist Alma Haser in collaboration with the Human Made Mark. We are excited to share the second half of the series and some ‘making of’ pictures of the handcrafted, human made artistry in Alma’s creative process. Coinciding with the Cannes Film Festival, we hope this project will be a powerful reminder to keep art and film deeply and unapologetically human against the tidal wave of generative AI. Link in the Bio. Search @almahaser for more of her incredible work. #emptyredcarpetproject #cannesfilmfestival #festivaldecannes #thehumanmademark #makeithumanmade

The Human Made Mark has partnered with the award winning artist Alma Haser to launch The Empty Red Carpet Project to coincide with the opening of @festivaldecannes today. In a provocative series of artworks that takes a stand against generative AI, Alma’s handmade creations takes inspiration from real iconic red carpet moments at Cannes, but the human talent has been removed, stolen, leaving behind a silhouette on the canvas. There is no art without humanity. Let’s unite together to keep art and film deeply and unapologetically human. Link in our bio. #festivaldecannes #emptyredcarpetproject #thehumanmademark #almahaser #makeithumanmade

Et si une image pouvait vriller un peu ? Les œuvres d’Alma Haser font cet effet-là. Chez Alma Haser, une photographie reste rarement une simple surface. Elle devient objet, volume, construction. C’est peut-être cela qui intrigue tant dans son travail : cette manière de faire sortir l’image de son cadre. Cette relation très physique aux formes, elle la pousse aujourd’hui plus loin encore avec la céramique. Dans Four Legs, nées d’un besoin de ralentir face au tumulte du quotidien, apparaissent de petites chaises miniatures, fragiles et étrangement habitées. Pas des sculptures comme exercices de style, presque des mondes en réduction, des objets pour reprendre prise. Et cette attention à la matière traverse aussi Tired. Warrior. Defeated. In Love., où Alma Haser aborde la maternité comme une expérience de transformation profonde, faite de débordement autant que de douceur. Les corps s’étirent, se confondent parfois, le temps se fragmente, comme si l’image cherchait à épouser ce bouleversement intérieur que porte le fait de devenir mère. Ce qui touche, c’est qu’elle montre le chaos sans le dramatiser, la fatigue, la charge mentale, la fusion, la perte de repères, mais aussi cette puissance étrange qu’il y a à accueillir un enfant et à se laisser déplacer par lui. On sent moins une représentation de la maternité qu’une tentative d’en approcher la complexité, ce désordre vivant qu’on apprend peut-être à habiter. Ce qui est beau dans ce rapprochement, c’est qu’avec Alma Haser les formes les plus fragiles portent souvent les choses les plus vastes. Une chaise miniature peut parler de contrôle et d’évasion, une image de maternité contenir le tumulte et la grâce, et tout se tient avec une douceur très singulière. On ressort avec l’impression que ses œuvres déplacent légèrement le réel, juste assez pour le regarder autrement. À voir à Candela Gallery du 1er mai au 20 juin, avec la possibilité de contribuer au projet en partageant son expérience via son questionnaire sur son site. A show exploring Motherhood by @almahaser 1st May - 20th June Candela Gallery, Richmond, VA @candelabooksandgallery

Incredibly excited to announce I have two shows opening today May 1st, at @candelabooksandgallery ! Exhibiting side by side, ‘Tired. Warrior. Defeated. In Love.’ and ‘Four Legs’. Also @nicklenker will be showing some of his mind bending ceramics. ‘Tired. Warrior. Defeated. In Love.’ is a project that explores the layers and complexities of motherhood, taking an intimate look at the experiences of a group of mothers over time. Through the work, skin is stretched and pulled, nipples twisted, bodies bruised and bulging. Time is layered and relayered, patchworked together. And ‘Four Legs’ was born out of a feeling of being overwhelmed with the juggle of it all. I decided to take one day a week, devoted to pottery, to make and unwind. It wasn’t long before I had made a family of miniature chairs, later discovering miniatures can provide a sense of control and escapism when real life feels a little too much. The two projects couldn’t be further apart from each other, although one is perhaps an antidote to the other. Both of these projects are still ongoing, but I’m so happy to be able to share them with everyone. A big thank you to Ashby and Whitney at Candela Gallery for bringing together my vision for each show. And a huge thank you to all the mothers who let me into their worlds to photograph them and their families, as well as the mothers who answered my mother's questionnaire. (📸@celine_guiout @dynamic_anatomy @sarahmaycock @elizabethpowerart @nicolajonespaints @art_angelinapaloma @chloemight @vanessafarinha_art and @sarahfarinha1 ) Also a big thank you to @Hattiehambridge for assisting me on this wild journey! I can’t see the show in person until the beginning of June, so please do let me know your thoughts and send me pictures! Both shows are on until June 20th

Following a small group of mothers over time, the ongoing photo project “Tired. Warrior. Defeated. In Love.”, from UK-based artist @almahaser (a longtime MT fave), explores the surreality of motherhood: the broken identities, the metamorphizing bodies, the blurring of the lines between “where a mother ends and a child begins.” In this iteration of the exhibition, which opens May 1 @candelabooksandgallery in Richmond, VA, Haser’s images are interwoven with snippets of text, taken from her intimate interviews with mothers grappling with the beauty and chaos of the everyday: “Skin is stretched and pulled, nipples twisted, bodies bruised and bulging. Time is layered and relayered, patchworked together … [to] deconstruct the misrepresentations of motherhood with a tender and playful eye.”    Runs through June 20th, 2026. #mothertonguemagazine #almahaser #photography #motherhood

My new project ‘Four Legs’ will be exhibited at @candelabooksandgallery this May! 'Four Legs' was born from a feeling of being overwhelmed with the constant juggle of the every day. 🪑 I decided to take one day a week, devoted to pottery, to just make and unwind. It wasn’t long before I had made a family of miniature chairs, I later found out that miniatures can provide a sense of control and escapism when real life feels overwhelming. They offer a chance to create a world where you can set the rules and design a space that is entirely your own. I’ve been interested in integrating my ceramics into my photographic practice for a long time, and the chairs felt like the perfect excuse to do this. 'Four Legs' is showing alongside my project 'Tired. Warrior. Defeated. In Love.' @candelabooksandgallery from May 1st - June 20th I’m so happy these projects get to realise their full potential in an exhibition. If you are in Richmond, VA, this May, come to the show! And I will also be there myself on the 3rd-7th June.

I’m incredibly excited to announce my upcoming solo show at @candelabooksandgallery this May! I will be showing two projects side by side, my mother series ‘Tired. Warrior. Defeated. In Love.’ and my series ‘Four Legs’ that was born out of a new obsession with making miniature chairs. (more on 'Four Legs' to come) ‘Tired. Warrior. Defeated. In Love.’ is an ongoing project exploring the layers and complexities of Motherhood. I’ve been working on this project since 2022, photographing some of these mothers for 4 years. I started this project because I was tired of the misrepresentations of motherhood. I didn’t see my own experience of motherhood anywhere. (though there have been so many amazing motherhood projects appearing everywhere since I started this, but hopefully they can all sit along side each other.) I saw a chance to present the experience of motherhood as joyous, raw and messy, a journey of self sacrifice and rebirth. I’m so happy this project gets to realise its full potential in an exhibition. This show is about bringing mothers together, and finding your village in a time that can be so full of love, but so isolating. If you are in Richmond, VA, this May, come to the show! May 1st until June 20th at Candela Gallery @candelabooksandgallery I am also making a rare trip on my own to see if from the 3rd-7th June, so do let me know if anyone is around then to see it with me :) Also any tips for Richmond, would also be much appreciated! #Motherhood #photographyproject #mothers #tired #photographicfabic

Here’s the latest collage for @obsmagazine What’s on Your Mind series. This week's writer is Catriona Ward @catward66 who's juggling thoughts of grief, the realities of being a writer, the sustenance of family, and her love of horses and riding. The process of reading the thoughts of these writers, instinctively selecting images that jump out to me and transferring them to my cutting board is something I’m finding so much inspiration in. It's also got me thinking about how my own mind is sectioned off into percentages of thoughts, and what on each given day is taking up the most room mentally. Thanks again to @agentortiz and @joannacochrane for commissioning this series. #collage #thoughtoftheday #whatsonmymind

Sharing some behind the scenes of the makings of my most recent ongoing project ‘Four Legs’ title still to be confirmed.. any thoughts? Two years ago @nickballon bought me a 6 week pottery class at @themudworks I emidiatly got hooked. First came the obsession with ceramic sausages.. and soon after I started making miniature ceramic chairs. Every Tuesday was my pottery day, my time to unwind and mentally clock off from photography work, but sure enough I couldn’t help but bring my ceramics into my photographic practice to make some tiny chair portraits. I began making these chairs at a time when I was feeling quite overworked and overwhelmed, and one thing I’ve always loved about pottery is that my hands take over and let my mind take more of a back seat. The chairs came about organically, and it wasn’t until later that I found out miniatures can provide a sense of control and escapism when real life feels stressful. No wonder we love miniatures so much! Very excited to share some final images and big plans for this series shortly 🪑🪑Sit tight.

Sharing some new work for @nytimes book review of three books exploring what it means to be a man and how we understand masculinity in contemporary culture. The books (In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to be a Man by Tom Junod; Who Needs Friends by Andrew McCarthy; American Men by Jordan Ritter Conn) examine loneliness, sexuality, and friendship. In his memoir Tom Junod talks about how as a boy he looked up to his father, but he also feared him. After his Dad’s passing he began to look at him in a new light, and recalls his mother saying she feared he would become like his father. I wanted to create an image that spoke to the generations of men, the journey from boyhood to man, and the examples of what a man ‘should be’, that are handed down from their fathers. For the second image I wanted to explore this idea of loneliness, and men's experience of being unable to express this feeling, as well as the inability be vulnerable with others. You can read the full review online. Thank you @tonyadouraghy for this commission and milokellett for modelling for me!

Sharing this week's image for @obsmagazine What's on My Mind Image with John Lanchester. John spends most of his working hours in a shed at the end of his garden, and is visited by the animals that cohabit the space - a potentially misogynistic squirrel, a mangy fox, and an array of birds all singing in the arrival of spring. I hand painted John’s torso and used the image of a Great Tit perched on a branch in his cut out silhouette. In the end I decided to use a slightly abstracted image of a squirrel’s tail in the piece, as if it is darting out of the image. Thanks again to @agentortiz and @joannacochrane for commissioning this series. #collage #thoughtoftheday #whatsonmymind

« Everything has an ending only the sausage has two » (2024) by @almahaser 🌭 Alma Haser transforms the quirks of the German language into sculptural images that blend humour, history, and imagination. Raised in the Black Forest by a German father and an English mother, she grew up bilingual and fascinated by the poetic absurdity of literal translations. Her playful series explores German idioms and their often-surreal English equivalents. A defining feature of Alma Haser’s work is the fusion of photography and sculptural techniques: many pieces take three-dimensional form through folds, layers, and structures that bring language to life. This project is part of the group show « Family Stories » - curated by @gabriela_torres_freyermuth 👉 on view until May 17th 🕒 Visit us from Wednesday to Sunday, 12pm–6pm
 📍 Place du Châtelain 18, 1050 Brussels Credits : ©Alma Haser & ©Hangar #AlmaHaser #FamilyStories #Exhibition #Photography #Brussels