Presentation of Alicia Arévalo in the New Media 2 studio

Ali Arévalo (Spain, 1998) are an artist, researcher, and educator based in Barcelona. They graduated in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid and the ABK Stuttgart, and hold a Master's degree in Contemporary Art History from the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. They are currently a PhD researcher and a member of the Tiempha research group at the University of Barcelona. Their practice envisions non-binary, queer, and interspecies futures in alliance with technology. They create temporal archaeologies that bridge pasts and futures, crafting fantasy worlds as emancipatory tools for dissent. Through this approach, they build universes that take the form of soundscapes, performances, audiovisual works, texts, and sculptures. An exercise of imagination both structures and fragments their work, envisioning times that twist into non-linear temporalities. Arévalo works with the fragility of materials and explores biomaterials that evoke scabs, skins, and living fragments: hybrid, sticky creatures. Through these, they address the vulnerability and mutability of bodies. Their work unfolds an imaginary of transformations, doors, thresholds, keys, swords, armors, and fantastical hybridizations that invite us to dream of other worlds. Some of their pieces fade and disappear, while others linger as echoes and traces in memory.

For introducing Ali, we would like to thank Petr Dlouhý, who, together with Anna Chrtková, is the curator of the Y Series project, where Ali will perform on May 5th www.divadlox10.cz/cs/repertoar/y-once-upon-a-timeProject made possible with the kind contribution of the Cervantes Institute.Looking forward our time! Darina