Maf'j Alvarez

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• Radiolaria – 2003
• Soft World – 2000

  With Tanya Meditzky at The Lowry, 2000

• 911 – painted forms
• 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 […]

• 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 […]

• Highly Sprung – 2001
• Almost Home 2023

  When I’m walking home at night in the dark, I hold my key so it sticks out between my first and second finger in case I need to hit out at somebody. I stand up straight and tall, and put my hood up if I have one, so that from behind, it’s less obvious that […]

• Mammary Mountain 2023

  Mammary Mountain is an intimate performative, VR experience created in collaboration with artists Tara Baoth Mooney and Camille Baker that explores disease within the body through the experience of breast cancer. This innovative new artwork uses cutting-edge technology to creatively explore and expose women’s healthcare struggles, particularly the hidden experiences of breast cancer treatment, with […]

• Rootbeans – 2014

    An evolution of Choice, Chance & Circumstance. Top image: Game played on the floor with improvised ‘beans’ made of pasta at Digihub art and chat Jan 2014 with 6 artists including Aharon, Selena, Simon McLennan, Rachel Cohen, Maf’j Alvarez, Johnny Marshall. Bottom image: A replaying of the game using the same pasta ‘beans’ by […]

• Dolly and Butch – 2002

  Dolly and Butch are an unlikely couple. They compliment each other as much as the offend each other. Begging to be played with, they tempt you into their soft undulating curves and fluffy spaces. Dolly doesn’t have much going on inside whilst Butch is all that and more.