Ana Laura Aláez
I belong to a generation (the post-punk generation, the “no future” generation) that was very much marked by a total rejection of culture. Culture was, in a way, the incarnation of power and oppression. Throughout my artistic career I have come to understand that what we consider as classics represent in each era a level of subversion equivalent to what we understand as such today and, therefore, to differentiate them from the normalising use that official culture makes of them.
From the beginning of my creative practice , two parallel vectors have always been present in my work in a more or less explicit way:
-one is the manner of female presence in art
-and the second one is the questioning of the plastic elements that have traditionally defined sculpture as an art linked to concepts considered basically masculine, such as strength, the prevalence of the physical, a self-confident individual, etc., and their different re-evaluations at different times in my career.
Ana Laura Aláez (Bilbao) lives and works in Mallorca. He studied at the Fine Arts Faculty of the UPV and took part in the Arteleku workshops given by Ángel Bados. She participated in the Istanbul Biennale (1997), in the 48th Venice Biennale exhibition “Apertutto” curated by Harald Szeemann, Buenos Aires Biennale (2001), 2nd and 3rd Busan Biennale (2002 and 2004) and 49th Venice Biennale Spanish Pavillion. She exhibited in various museums such as MUSAC (León), Guggenheim Bilbao, PS1 (Nueva York), Art Museum of Helsinki, Palais de Tokyo (París), Hamburger Banhof (Berlin), Centro de Arte Santa Mónica (Barcelona) and Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid) among others. In 2013 she was awarded Gure Artea for her lifelong artistic trajectory and her contribution to contemporary art and culture.
