Maria Alcaide is a visual artist who regularly works with video, installation and text. Her research methodology is flexible and porous. She is interested in references that lie on the fringes of academia or are outside the field of art. For this reason, she always takes her personal experience and her own economic and spatial limitations as a body as her starting point.

The concept of performativity plays an essential role in her practice, as the artist draws on the high potential of performance to create fictions or reveal the fictional nature of reality. Narrative structures similar to those of stories, legends and myths are very present in her work, giving rise to stories in which she questions the social, political and economic constructs that maintain the status quo.

Alcaide has a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Seville, has studied at the Université Paris VIII and has a Master’s degree in Art and Design Research from Eina-UAB. Her research has been presented at academic institutions such as EHESS (Paris), Universität Der Künste (Berlin) and MACBA (Barcelona). Internationally, she has shown her work at the Bauhaus Archive in Berlin, the Frankfurter Kunstverein, the IMAI in Dusseldorf, Muu Kaapeli in Helsinki, the Komunuma-Fondation Fiminco gallery and the Villa Belleville in Paris, and Reed College in San Francisco. She has received awards such as Generación 2021 (La Casa Encendida) and the LaCaixa production grant, as well as Jeune Création and Salon de Montrouge in Paris. He recently won the Barcelona Producció award and has worked at the Centre Pompidou in Paris on a project about contemporary art and ruralities.