Ali Arévalo
Long-term residency
May 2024 - April 2026
Ali Arévalo. Salamanca, 1998
Ali Arévalo is an artist, researcher, and educator. They hold a degree in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid and ABK Stuttgart and a Master’s in Contemporary Art History from the Reina Sofía National Museum of Art and the UCM. Currently, they are pursuing a doctoral thesis at the University of Barcelona on Xenosonorities and collaborating with the TEIDE research group (Temporalidades de Emergencia), which focuses on an interdisciplinary analysis of the concept of time in a wounded world.
Their practice envisions non-binary, queer, and interspecies futures in alliance with technology. They create temporal archaeologies that bridge pasts and futures, crafting fantasy worlds as emancipatory tools for dissent. Through this, they construct universes that take the form of soundscapes, performances, audiovisual pieces, texts, and sculptures. Imagination serves as both the backbone and dismantling force of their work, allowing them to explore times twisted into nonlinear temporalities. Arévalo works with the fragility of materials, experimenting with biomaterials that evoke scabs, skins, and living fragments—hybrid, sticky creatures. Through these elements, they address the vulnerability and mutability of bodies. Their work unfolds an imaginary of transformations, doors, thresholds, keys, and fantastical hybridizations, inviting us to dream of other worlds. Some of their creations blur and fade away, while others endure as echoes and traces in memory.
They held their first solo exhibition, Les Faules de Lepòrida, at Can Felipa Arts Visuals (Barcelona). Collectively, their work has been exhibited at Jedna Dva Tri Gallery (Prague), La Panera (Lleida), Sala d’Art Jove (Barcelona), Intermediae Matadero (Madrid), The Clemente (New York), and Kunstverein Hechingen (Stuttgart). Their performances have been presented at Fabra i Coats (Barcelona), La Caldera (Barcelona), Fundació Joan Miró (Barcelona), Festival Argiartean (San Sebastián), and La Capella (Barcelona). Additionally, they have undertaken residencies at Petrohradská Kolektiv (Prague), L’Estruch Fàbrica de Creació (Sabadell), and Centro Negra AADK (Blanca, Murcia).
