Artist Statement

Their practice speculates on non-binary, queer and interspecies futures through sculptural, performative, audiovisual and textual fictions. Through a strategic use of anachronism, Arévalo queers history and reimagines dissident mythologies that twist linear temporality. In doing so, they construct universes and fantasy worlds where historical figures such as warrior maidens and Magical Girl manga characters open pathways towards new embodiments and narratives of resistance.

Arévalo works with the fragility of matter, exploring biomaterials that evoke scabs, skins, shells and hybrid creatures in order to address the vulnerability and mutability of bodies. This material research allows them to displace the meanings of traditional symbols —the armour, the rose, historical dress— in order to imagine non-binary bodies. Through temporal speculation, they dismantle their connotations: the sword can bloom into revolution, the armour can become fragile, the rose can embody a dissidence that sprouts from the wound.

They combine materials that contain different temporalities —biodegradable skins that rapidly disintegrate are articulated with resistant metal structures— generating tensions between the ephemeral and the lasting, the soft and the structural. At this intersection, clothing is reconfigured through its own textures, weights, spaces and forms, opening up the possibility of imagining other forms of body.

Their work unfolds an imaginary of transformations, doors, thresholds, keys, armour and fantastic hybridisations that invite us to dream other worlds. Some of their works blur and disappear; others remain as echoes and traces in memory.

Artist Statement

Their practice speculates on non-binary, queer and interspecies futures through sculptural, performative, audiovisual and textual fictions. Through a strategic use of anachronism, Arévalo queers history and reimagines dissident mythologies that twist linear temporality. In doing so, they construct universes and fantasy worlds where historical figures such as warrior maidens and Magical Girl manga characters open pathways towards new embodiments and narratives of resistance.

Arévalo works with the fragility of matter, exploring biomaterials that evoke scabs, skins, shells and hybrid creatures in order to address the vulnerability and mutability of bodies. This material research allows them to displace the meanings of traditional symbols —the armour, the rose, historical dress— in order to imagine non-binary bodies. Through temporal speculation, they dismantle their connotations: the sword can bloom into revolution, the armour can become fragile, the rose can embody a dissidence that sprouts from the wound.

They combine materials that contain different temporalities —biodegradable skins that rapidly disintegrate are articulated with resistant metal structures— generating tensions between the ephemeral and the lasting, the soft and the structural. At this intersection, clothing is reconfigured through its own textures, weights, spaces and forms, opening up the possibility of imagining other forms of body.

Their work unfolds an imaginary of transformations, doors, thresholds, keys, armour and fantastic hybridisations that invite us to dream other worlds. Some of their works blur and disappear; others remain as echoes and traces in memory.