In 2026, I exhibited a selection of work at Galerie Leneuf Sinibaldi in Paris, France. The show ran from May 7th to June 2nd, it was my first gallery exhibition outside of the United States.

“The Way Twine Frays by Alexander D. Iglesias, offers a thorough examination of youth culture in America. Drawing from two of Iglesias’ ongoing projects, I Love It Here, I Hate It Here and Driftwood, Iglesias contemplates the passing of their own youth, the difficulty of understanding one’s own mortality, and celebrates the fleeting beauty of everyday life.

I Love It Here, I Hate It Here is a photographic series documenting Iglesias’ hometown and childhood friends. Iglesias’ grew up in a small city in Tennessee which came with certain challenges. Being surrounded by drug addiction, mental illness, and the symptoms of American social issues shaped the way the Iglesias' group of friends came to view the world and grow into themselves. The project documents who the people became and how the place changes and shapes people.

Driftwood explores the façade of the alternative scene and its connected social circles – graffiti artists, underground music, illegal raves, et cetera – and the underlying cost of the lifestyle. With the new perspective age brings, Iglesias’ tries to understand their own impulse for involving themselves in this community when they were a child while photographically navigating their own life now as an adult, creating opportunity for self-definition and understanding.

With works from both of the projects in conversation in The Way Twine Frays, Iglesias’ more closely examines what it is to be young. Between the rural, urban, and in between settings, you follow several subjects through highs and lows and then are forced to the ocean’s coast where thoughts are free to roam while contemplating the water. With nine original text collages, you enter into an introspective space reflecting the chaotic and introspectiveness of youth. 

Alexander D. Iglesias was born in Florida in 2001. They moved around the United States several times before settling in Chattanooga, Tennessee at the age of 14. Soon after, Alexander started making photographs of their friends and their own experience of the American south. Alexander went to the Rochester Institute of Technology, graduating with their BFA in 2024. Iglesias’ has been published in Lenscratch, Lensculture, and Musée Magazine among others. They were accepted into the archive of American Photography and are recipients of the Urbanautica Institute Awards and Lensculture Emerging Talent Awards as well as alumni of The Chico Review and Atelier Smedsby. The exhibition is Iglesias’ first major showing outside of the United States of America.”