Maf'j Alvarez

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• Hardly soft – 1995
• Care = Art = Care – 1999

  Care = Art = Care St Augustinus Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium Showing an adaptation of ‘Stroke’  Group Show – 2002

• Elusive Fish – 1995
• Choice Chance & Circumstance – 2003

  Choice, Chance and Circumstance – Newcastle Graft, Waygood Gallery 2003 Choice, Chance and Circumstance is an ever drawing evolving game that brings people together to explore themes of decision-making, ownership, communication, boundaries, information and belief. The wider themes are of power and control on all scales from the individuals internal dialog with the world and […]

• Cells – 2003
• Almost Home 2023

  When I’m walking home at night in the dark, I hold my key so it sticks out between my first and second finger in case I need to hit out at somebody. I stand up straight and tall, and put my hood up if I have one, so that from behind, it’s less obvious that […]

• Holonspace – Etienne Le Comte 2019

  September 5th 2019 saw Stanley Taylor-Murray and myself take Holonspace to GOVR cafe in Brighton where we roped local graphic artist Etienne Le Comte to collaborate with us to create Holons using his artwork (see the picture in the gallery below). This was my first chance to teach someone in vigor to use the Holonspace workflow […]

• Three Sisters 2015

  Three Sisters’ is an installation using fibre optics and plastic which looks towards pre-colonial native American traditions in planting to reveal stories about women and technology Corn, beans and squash are three inseparable sisters who according to Native American legend and folklore are the sustainers of life. Eaten together they provide all vital nutritional elements […]

• Stroke – 1998

  With Tanya Meditzky at ISEA 98, Manchester  “The installation Stroke, by the Manchester artists Maf’j Alvarez and Tanya Meditzky (UK), got the viewer involved on a more subliminal level. After wandering in small cloth-lined spaces, I sat on a low stool to look at a screen through a hole in the wall. I put my […]

• INTER/her 2020

  Working with Artist Camille Baker on a prototype project around the female reproductive system. The piece is now live as a full version developed for the Oculus Quest and has been shown at various festivals and events by Camille. Visit the website https://inter-her.art Over several months in 2019, I worked with Camille to develop a series […]