Zoe Alameda (b. 2000) layers images and material to trace a restless search for connection. Drawing from digital culture, commercial iconography, and the visual landscape of Los Angeles, her paintings and sculptures navigate tensions–between real and reproduced, presence and absence, distraction and focus–as tools to explore fragmentation and the evolving sense of self. Through this interplay, Alameda’s practice becomes a space where emotion and identity engage in constant dialogue. She longs for moments that linger, for clarity beyond the noise.