Maf'j Alvarez

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• 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 […]

• Rekwear – 2002

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• Glass half full – 2015

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• Stickybits 2020

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• Powerbabies VR 2019

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• Choice Chance & Circumstance – 2003

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• A house for a fly 2018

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• INTER/her 2020

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