Ana Laura Aláez

Bio

Winner of the Basque Government's Gure Artea Award in 2013, in recognition of her artistic career and contribution to contemporary art. Alongside her visual work, Aláez has also engaged in activities such as space design and writing. Since 2000 (coinciding with her project Dance & Disco at Espacio 1 of the Reina Sofía Museum), she is also collaborating with other electronic music creators. She has extensive teaching experience through courses, lectures, and workshops. Ana Laura lives and works in Palma de Mallorca.

Project

El conflicto es otro. Hemp. Variable Sizes. 2018.

The work’s shape is a kind of ancestral mask, with holes and perforations: fragile links of internal and external relationships: an irregular network based on repetition, on transforming what horizontally verti- cally, to provide three-dimensionality to the plane, to write a biographical account with other elements, in the action of rising independently of the circumstances, etc. All of this affects the unfinished nature of the structures and the impossibility of achieving any certainty. The perforated circles are an element that is constantly repeated in the work of the artist. In this case, these holes become a symbol of sliding with friction. The hemp, barely treated material, raw, rough, earth colour, subdued in the hands, anticipates a more atavistic culture.

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