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.

• Eva Quantica

  Eva Quantica is a virtual reality dance piece created by Maf’j Alvarez about female identity in a lockdown bubble – a dreamlike, painterly open world to explore Eve and her multiple selves. Download Eva Quantica for the Oculus Quest   Created by Maf’j Alvarez Commissioned by the National Gallery, London, as part of National Gallery […]

• Cells – 2003
• Hook seeds – 2002
• A house for a fly 2018

  A house for a fly is an intimate room scale VR experience that tells the story of Lila, a 6-year-old girl who discovers she is locked in a room with only a sleeping baby and a fly for to keep her company. Sweet and compelling, you are drawn into a bedroom in a rural mountain […]

• Soft World – 2000

  With Tanya Meditzky at The Lowry, 2000

• 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 […]

• 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
• 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 […]