What is it, that needs to be said?

With 15 personal answers to this question, and between Sundays 17 November and 1st December 2024, I will draw and release daily a visual interpretation on paper.

Day 1 / Still Music, 2024
18 x 24 cm
Archival ink thin-liner and watercolor on paper. 

This 15-day series is an invitation to say something of timely personal relevance.
Because I believe we don't need more noise, but more connection.

To participate sending me your current personal truth to be interpreted as a drawing for this series, click here.
Answers are welcome in any language.

Performance and installation "Between Us Skin"

Exhibition "Sharing intimacies. (Ex-?)architects explore the self"
21 May - 27 June 2024
Delft University of Technology
Curated by Javier Arpa Fernández and Kornelis Fragakis.

Beyond the usual focus on art related to design, the exhibition (organized by BK Public Programs) explores art and intimacy. While recognizing the value of art interventions in the public realm, the exhibition engages with intimacy as a form of communication, that not only includes but also requires a sense of community.

Sharing Intimacies features five artists with backgrounds in architecture who will offer unique perspectives and expressions on themes such as human connection, body, identity, empathy, and storytelling.

(Click image to see video)

“Open Studio” in a Kitchen in Madrid

Starting the new year strong! With a selection of works on paper, and a live-drawing session, I gathered in Madrid some of my favorite people among colors, lines, and food. In the kitchen, literally.

The showroom of Kitchen for Life generously hosted my open studio. The colorful stories of the series “Liquid Moments”, “Periscope”, and “Body Parts” were boldly fitting the themes of nutritious art and social togetherness.

Exhibition “Einsichten: Visarte Zürich & Friends"

Visarte Zurich is once again organizing a major exhibition at the Photobastei at the end of the year. Entitled "Insights 2023: Visarte Zürich & Friends", the exhibition brings together over 200 artists and works that provide an insight into Zurich's diverse art scene. It is curated by Nicolas Bischof, Tanja Breu, Clare Goodwin, Lorenzo E. Metzler, Sandi Paucic, Len Schaller.

I participate with a ceramic sculpture from the project-in-progress “Unsere Zeit” (Our Time).

The exhibition is part of the tradition of annual exhibitions that Visarte Zurich has initiated and successfully organized for several years. The exhibition brings a presentation of works by Visarte Zürich members, and additional guests, exhibition spaces and individual positions who have been invited to present their own curatorial program.

FOREVER: Artist edition Tally Marks x Alicia Velázquez

A lost city upon a smile, diamonds, and fish among bubbles. Now tattooed on the skin of a unique fashion accessory.

With a live-drawing performance in the intimacy of the studio, I interpreted a story for fashion brand Tally Marks, on - and with - one of their signature harness bags.

Tally Marks’ accessories are made in small editions by artisans in Lebanon and with Italian materials.

Contact me for inquiries about this unique edition .

Performance film by Idoia Felis.

New curated selection of drawings from the series "Periscope"

Between 7.07.2023 and 21.08.2023 an available selection drawings from the ritualistic series “Periscope” are on view in a dedicated page: Little Absurdities collection.

“Little Absurdities” is based on the myriad of tiny details always present in the drawings of the series. Dreamy characters, absurd objects, body parts, and omnipresent cultural symbols are some of the stories inside each of these universes depicted on paper.

All drawings of the collection “Little Absurdities” are available for purchase at a special price.

Ongoing production of ceramic portrait series

Since the fall 2022 I have been embarked in the production of a long, challenging and also wonderful project named “Our Time” (Unsere Zeit).

In “Our Time” I continue exploring the intersection of performance and ceramic objects. Performance in this context is understood as a series of intimate, one-on-one encounters.

“Our Time” consists on a series of interviews to a number of residents at the elderly home Bürgerasyl-Pfrundhaus in Zurich. In the second part of the process I produce a series of abstract portraits using painted fired clay as medium.

“Our Time” is a project supported by a Covid-19 Grant from the City of Zurich.

"Chorizos para Mercedes", performance. Helmhaus, Zurich

Live production of the installation “Mujer Emigrante Mercedes” performance, in tandem with Mercedes Álvarez.

Friday 10 June 2022, 16:00-18:00

Part of the exhibition Found in Translation curated by Alba Chantico Ledesma, Nora von Bergen and Sarah Basyouny. Helmhaus, Zurich.

The performance is also part of the large series of events Zurich Art Weekend, 10 - 12 June 2022.

Bang Bang exhibition. Museum Tinguely, Basel

BANG BANG – translocal hi:stories of performance art

8 June – 21 August 2022
An exhibition project by Revolving Histories/Performance Chronik Basel and Museum Tinguely

I participate in this vast and exciting exhibition and series of events brought by Window of Fame.

About BANG BANG (source: Museum Tinguely) :
All summer long, Museum Tinguely will be celebrating performance art in the show BANG BANG - translocal hi:stories of performance art. At the heart of this process-oriented exhibition is the Swiss performance scene, its players, and its networks, although the programme will be international in character.