After starting out in the field of performance, Iñaki Àlvarez works in the areas of video, photography, CD-Rom and, more recently, theatre. Two of his recurring themes are the body and words. The first is the source of pain, loss and wounds, while the second brings poetry, the voice, text and a reflection on the expressive capacities and limitations of words.
Participates in on the outside looking in with the work:
Life Could be This (Now it Turns out I’m a Hero) (2009)
Photographic installation
Dimensions 356 cm x 50 cm (large photographs 120 cm x 50 cm, small photographs 18 cm x 48 cm)
Pigment Print RC and needles
“Life Could be This…” talks about the ability to confront pain, about the specific, everyday heroism entailed by simply living with the threat of HIV. A restrained exploration of illness, pain, fear and absence that avoids excess, in images that invite reflection, mixed with emotion.
Iñaki Àlvarez
(Vic, 1974)
After starting out in the field of performance, Iñaki Àlvarez works in the areas of video, photography, CD-Rom and, more recently, theatre. Two of his recurring themes are the body and words. The first is the source of pain, loss and wounds, while the second brings poetry, the voice, text and a reflection on the expressive capacities and limitations of words.
Participates in on the outside looking in with the work:
Life Could be This (Now it Turns out I’m a Hero) (2009)
Photographic installation
Dimensions 356 cm x 50 cm (large photographs 120 cm x 50 cm, small photographs 18 cm x 48 cm)
Pigment Print RC and needles
“Life Could be This…” talks about the ability to confront pain, about the specific, everyday heroism entailed by simply living with the threat of HIV. A restrained exploration of illness, pain, fear and absence that avoids excess, in images that invite reflection, mixed with emotion.