Ana Laura Aláez, Bambi leona.

As part of the Special: Garden of Hyenas, Ana Laura Aláez presents Lioness Bambi, an activation of a magical-realist story the artist wrote recently. In the story, titled A Handful of Chickpeas, the body’s form becomes hybrid, changing according to the traces left by lived experience. A childhood memory stretches out over time as if it were an ancestral experience. Something that happened in a matter of seconds becomes a meaningful line thanks to a different interpretation, one far removed from reality: the opposite of that objective perspective, which prevents a kinder reading of events. The story speaks of small things, of an intangible inheritance that, curiously, will change a destiny. But how can we explain certain events when they can sculpt beyond the physical?

¨ Lioness Bambis, that’s what we really are¨ ,  a dear friend used to say whenever he recognised certain artistic restlessness in others. He meant the tension between the docile animal and the predatory monster crying out to emerge, which often takes on flesh without warning. Two-headed mythological creatures are not entirely fiction. That is why this struggle between opposites runs so deep in the work of many artists, including Leonora Carrington, who needed to draw on her wilder nature.

Ana Laura Aláez is a visual and sound artist. She studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of the Basque Country (UPV) and took part in the Arteleku workshops led by Ángel Bados. She has participated in the Istanbul Biennial (1997), the dAPERTutto section of the 48th Venice Biennale (1999) curated by Harald Szeemann, the 2nd and 3rd Busan Biennales (2002 and 2004), the Spanish Pavilion at the 49th Venice Biennale (2001) and the Buenos Aires Biennial (2001). She has exhibited at museums including MUSAC (León), Guggenheim Bilbao, PS1 (New York), Helsinki Art Museum, Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin), Centre d’Arts Santa Mònica (Barcelona) and Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid), among others. In 2013, she received the Gure Artea prize for her artistic career and contributions to contemporary art and culture.

Duration: 60 minutes.

Capacity: 144 people.

Audience: General audience. Children aged 7 and over must be accompanied by an adult.

Garden of Hyenas

Special Ticket for all activities (except children's workshops and the tasting): €30 / Individual Ticket: €10.