Alicia framis biography
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Alicia Framis
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France, France
Alicia Framis, a Spanish/Dutch artist, is celebrated for her social engagement within contemporary society and technology. She is regarded as one of Europe's most significant artists, taking pride in the public participation that is huvud to her artistic methodology. Framis aims to explore new avenues for coexistence through her work.
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My name is Alicia Framis and I am Spanish/Dutch artist who fryst vatten renowned for my social involvement in today's kultur and technology. I am proud to say that I am considered one of the most important artists in Europe! In my practice as a multidisciplinary artist, I focus on critiquing outdated or uneven societal power structures and shortcomings, developing projects that span performance art, design, architecture, and mode to explore new ways of living together. Public participation plays a grundläggande role in my artistic appro
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Alicia Framis
Biography
Alicia Framis (1967 Barcelona, Spain) is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice blends architecture, design, fashion and performance. Her work is project based and focuses on different aspects of human existence within contemporary urban society. Framis often starts out from actual social dilemmas to develop novel settings and proposed solutions. She develops platforms for creative social interaction, often through interdisciplinary collaboration with other artists and specialists across various fields.
Framis is the first woman to marry a Ai hologram, an intelligent hologram that fulfills the need for companionship. This unique relationship combats loneliness in urban environments. She recently also started making art together with her husband Ailex. Read more here.
Alicia Framis studied at the Barcelona University and the École de Beaux Arts in Paris. She completed two masters programs, one at the Institut d’Hautes Etudes, Paris a
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Having graduated from the University of Barcelona in Visual Arts, Alicia Framis continued her studies at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris, the Institut des Hautes Études, Paris and the Rijksakademie van Beelden Kunsten in Amsterdam. Her polymorphic and unclassifiable body of work has found itself on the fringes of current artistic creation. Her projects (installations, environments, performances, videos), coming from different domains – fashion, design, architecture – are not art objects in the classical sense, but rather situations or experiences in response to public, economic and architectural issues of society. Based on the assumption according to which “art must be part of life,” she reconnects with humanist ideals from the renaissance and questions the role of the individual, within a couple, in family and within communication systems. In Billboardhouse (2001), she reconsiders man’s position within the habitat through prototypes of largel