Born in Madrid, and with a background in architecture, her practice moves towards the common ground between body and matter, exploring, through performance, architecture between the visible and invisible, the tangible and intangible. Movement and matter celebrating the precious mindless and disposable, the unexpected and invisible rituals. Her current work takes the form of performative soft sculptures, from spatial to wearable, most often using thread.

Alicia lives and works in Zurich, and is currently an Adapt-r fellow (Art Design Architecture Practice Training research), Marie Curie European fund, with university KU Leuven in Brussels, as PhD candidate in her own creative practice. Her work has been exhibited in ICO Foundation, Madrid, and granted by Andalusian Ministry of Culture in Spain, for temporary public intervention Softening, in the streets of Malaga in 2007.

http://www.aliciavelazquez.com/