Bárbara Alegre Spanish, b. 1976
“Embodying fraternity and the capacity to place oneself in another’s position, the work supports the idea of art being a ‘shelter’ or ‘safe place’ and somewhere to return and reflect. This is a place where quietness, intimacy, contemplation and delicacy aim to bring protection and freedom offering a motherly act of care and embrace.”
–Bárbara Alegre
Bárbara Alegre (b. 1976 Barcelona) is a Spanish visual artist based between Barcelona and London. Alegre will complete her MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art in 2023. She employs a multidisciplinary approach to research and making that is grounded in ‘life forming questions’ based around time, memory, expiration and the search for origins, genealogy, identity and the social transmission of values.
Alegre’s practice emerges from the autobiographical in order to talk about the ‘Other’ and moves on to investigate universal questions concerning being human and the entangled relations between the physical and the psychological stretching across the individual and the collective.
Her paintings seek to capture the intangible notion of time or the inseparable interaction between bodily senses, thoughts and the perception of all this through sight. Also embodying fraternity and the capacity to place oneself in another’s position, the work supports the idea of art being a ‘shelter’ or ‘safe place’ and somewhere to return and reflect where quietness, intimacy, contemplation and delicacy aim to bring protection and freedom offering a motherly act of care and embrace.
