Alicia Framis

ALICIA FRAMIS (Mataró, 1967).
Untitled.
Photograph in giclée print on aluminum.
Measurements: 110 x 230 cm.

Alicia Framis combines, in the photographic series that occupies us, reflections on transit spaces such as an airport, with the stratagems of advertising and its symbols of luxury (such as the Dior ad) to sneak into any space. Between the human flow and the advertisement, the artist introduces a third disruptive element: cemetery niches in which the names and dates of birth and death of the victims of violence are engraved. We see the model's oversized face glowing, while the travelers are reduced to tiny black silhouettes that look at these rows of names as if they were looking at the screens announcing the boarding gates. The work is part of a broader search that subsumes reflections on globalization and capitalism.

Alicia Framis was born in 1967 in Mataró, Barcelona. She studied Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona and the School of Fine Arts in Paris. She completed her training at the Institut d'Hautes Etudes, Paris and at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam. Alicia has lived and worked in Barcelona (1985-1990), Paris (1990-1993), and Amsterdam (1995-2005). Alicia Framis currently lives and works in Amsterdam. She is a multidisciplinary artist whose work oscillates between the disciplines of architecture, object design, fashion and performance. Her projects openly raise various problematic questions about the conventional ways in which the contemporary world organizes its political, moral and affective agendas. Framis articulates unconventional, often even fictitious, proposals to address and respond to real social dilemmas. In 2023 he announced his new project, his wedding with a hologram named AiLex, a virtual companion created by Articifial Intelligence. The wedding is scheduled for the summer of 2024.

His work has been exhibited in centers and venues such as the Bangkok Biennale (2022), Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno CAAM in Las Palmas (Gran Canaria, 2022), the Creative Time initiative in Central Park (New York, 2015), the Royal Academy of the Arts London (2011), the Museum of Modern Art Shanghai (2006), the Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2002), or MACBA, Barcelona (2000), among others. She represented the Netherlands in the Dutch pavilion at the 50th Venice Biennale (2003) and her works are part of collections of the Hirshhorn Museum (Washington), the Rabobank and the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen (Netherlands), the Migros Museum für Gegenwarstskunst (Switzerland) or the MUSAC (Spain), as well as exhibiting permanent work in Long Island and Massachusetts (USA). She is currently the director of a master's program at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam and a lecturer at the Universidad Nebrija in Madrid. In 2019, Alicia Framis received the 2019-2022 Lucas Artist Visual Arts Fellowship in California.