Alejandra López

edible installation made with Lena Longefay (Fabas) in the garden of 1646, The Hague, 2024

Duo show at Lab23, The Hague, with Maria José Crespo. 2023

Indoor installation of functional and non-functional kites screen printed during printmaking residency Frans Masereel, Belgium.

Photos by Helena Roig.

In-Fusion
A tasting evening organised together with Lena Longefay, hosted by EATHOUSE collective & Kunstinstituut Melly exploring the ecological thinking of mystic Hildegaard von Bingen.

Rotterdam, November 2021

We have been busy collectively investigating food making and sharing as a process of healing and coming together. The audience was invited to join in a collective investigation of the term Infusion through an edible installation. Considering apparently opposite states of being such as wet & dry, fast & slow, warm & cold, liquid & solid, guests could concoct their own genealogical dishes from the selected foods and wonder who infuses whom, how, and when?

Photos by Jake Caleb

The Myth of the Silverfish
Presentation at Stroom Den Haag, as part of their program Positions. Sept - October 2022

Showing some early stages of a broader and longer running research project into the themes of ecology and storytelling. The work presented is an attempt to “construct” a myth of the silverfish - an ancient creature with no human given tale. Wondering how to tell a story that does not care for being told, I attempted to think through the figure of the silverfish, and aimed to construct a myth about the lack of a myth. This project is still ongoing.

Fogón.

Colour pencil drawing at Swab Art Fair Barcelona 2024 with The Tiny Art Gallery

A large drawing on paper hangs from the ceiling of a room and comes forward onto the room being held in place by 4 different bricks. The drawings is made up of colourful squiggles that dances and overlap with each other

a room with a curved wall. On it hang two shelves, one with a tv and another one with a dvd player. On the wall behind the tv we also see a chain drawn with black tape. Hanging from the ceiling a series of strings attached to some bricks from which a sculpture made out of a chain hangs.

Starchy Knowledge

Final installation for Graduation project at Master Artistic Research, KABK den Haag, 2020.

Dimensions variable, spray paint and oil pastel on paper, bricks, thread, wire, tape, clay, tree branch, video, tv monitor and DVD player.

The size of your antenna 2019. Large drawing presented at 1646 as part of the Ongoing conversation number 6.

1000 x 150cm, colour pencil on paper

You name it

Installation made by translating a previously made graphite drawing, of a small set of passages made out of clay and rubbish. I enlarged those passages and structures of support out of folded paper, flour, styrofoam, stools, and a big ladder. Their arrangement encouraged the audience to move around the room following one of the given paths, making them constantly adjust their view of the space. Moving up, down, through, and over, but never being able to see the entire structure at once. Drawings were featured within the flour and the styrofoam pieces; representations of a variety of commonly seen but unintelligible systems of communication: road signage, utility road markings and RFID tags; systems used to transport information of such a specific kind, or in such a specific way, that the meaning of that information becomes obtuse when out of context. The intention of the installation was to break away this over codification by way of wandering, and offering the audience a material absorption and reinterpretation of those codes.

Dimensions variable, graphite on paper, finger on flour, marker on styrofoam, folded paper, brick and wood, ladder, work lights, and two stools.

2019, The Hague

Melting map of my kitchen

Quartair, Den Haag 2019

installation shot, dimensions variable, water and food colouring sculptures on gridded bed of flour and tarpooling.