Maf'j Alvarez

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• More bark than bite – 1998

  With Hannah Barker Dry Bar, Manchester, 1998 A collaboration with Hannah Barker exploring interpersonal relationships and the sexual tension existing in public spaces. A site specific soft sculpture installation in 5 pieces.

• Cells – 2003
• Guaycuyacu – 2000

  November 2000 saw a trip to Reserva Rio Guaycuyacu in Ecuador. Run by Jim and Meredith West Foyle, this incredible lowland tropical rainforest was home to me when i volunteered with them during one month. The reserve produces fruit trees and aims to work with local people to promote diversity of species and general improved […]

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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 […]

• Hook seeds – 2002
• Choice Chance & Circumstance – 2003

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• Rekwear – 2002

  With Tanya Meditzky Stoke Newington Festival London 2002 “Want to get an abandoned car towed away quickly? Then turn it into an art installation and wait for bosses at Hackney council to do the job three days early, ruining your exhibition in the process. That is what happened to a group of artists who wanted […]

• Highly Sprung – 2001