Beatrice Alvestad Lopez is a visual artist based in Oslo and Stockholm. She holds an MFA in Craft from Konstfack (Stockholm) and a BA in Textiles from Nuova Academia di Belle Arti (Milan) with an exchange at Pratt Institute (New York).
Alvestad Lopez artistic practice revolves around creating site-specific installations that activate a dialogue between an expanded definition of bodies, materials, and landscape. At the core of my work are fictional narratives that are interwoven with organic materials and craft techniques, with an overarching thematic focus on ecofeminism and the pressing relationship between humanity and nature.
She works interdisciplinarily, primarily with sculpture, video/performance, and installation. She consciously combine traditional craftsmanship (in wood, metal, ceramics, textile) with new media and found materials to materialize fictional, often ritualistic, stagings. The video-performances serve as an extension where costumes and characters enter nature, creating a sense of transformation.
Alvestad Lopez motivation is driven by the desire to create a space for reflection and an alternative understanding of our ecological situation. She seeks to challenge conventional views and use the complexity of the material encounters as a metaphor for nature's layered and countless formations.
Alvestad Lopez has recently exhibited in numerous art institutions such as Bærum Kunsthall, Bomuldsfabrikken Kunsthall, Röhsska Museet, Konstfrämjandet, Konsthallen i Luleå, Collecteurs, Skagen Museum, Galleri Ask, House of Foundation, Steneby Konsthall and Västerbotten Museum among others.
