Enrique Alcides

Lives and works in Madrid, Spain

Artist statement

As a child, between the Canary Islands and Western Sahara, I believed the world was made only of sky, ocean, and sand. Yet the dunes changed from one day to the next. That early experience contained the roots of my interest in the infinite, the mutable, and in what appears stable while constantly transforming. Language was my first tool, as a playwright and storyteller: I built narratives to give order to experience. When words were no longer enough, I carried them into the body through theater and film, turning them into presence, time, and space. Later, the same need expanded into collage, watercolor, painting, altered photography, moving image, and generative systems. My practice does not change medium; it expands the same question. From word to body; from body to image; from image to mutable system. Collage fragments and recomposes reality. Watercolor introduces fragility, emotional filtration, and a partial surrender of control. Altered photography manipulates memory and reconstructs bodies. Painting restores matter, presence, and physical resistance. Code produces repetition, variation, multiplicity, and identities that never fully settle. I came to understand Asperger’s as a retrospective key to my experience: it does not explain the work, but helps me recognize a persistent way of perceiving, questioning, and organizing the world. I work with what changes without ceasing to be; with the provisional forms through which we try to inhabit ourselves. The artist I am...

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