Alicia Escamilla

My practice focuses on «inhabiting», a concept I've been exploring through my background in architecture and my life story. I conceive of the mind, the body, and the world as places to be built and then inhabited through care—toward healing. I work in series that address specific themes with a phenomenological approach, combining different sensorial elements: images, sounds, textures, and expressed through various techniques. Each artwork unfolds as a kind of «home»: a symbolic space to be inhabited. My intention is to articulate subject-object tensions that trigger shifts in perception and invite deeper ways of being—of inhabiting. I am currently working on a series that alludes, in an inverse way, to the soundscapes of Austrian composer Franz Liszt. In this project, I seeks] to stimulate and evoke auditory sensations through active observation, by decomposing and fragmenting photographs into multiple layers to create a visual experience that suggests the sonic.

«What I inhabit inhabits me. In this synergy, something is revealed. My work explores this relationship— expressing my way of inhabiting the world, the body, and the mind» My work explores the act of inhabiting on three scales: mundane, corporeal, and perceptual. Influenced by my training as an architect, I approach inhabiting as a mind–body–world continuum whose essential quality is care, and its relationship with memory and the way it shapes identity. My creative process is mainly guided by intuition, developing ideas through non-linear cycles involving research, reflection, contemplation, and materialization. My work traverses various media that dialogue with one another, such as drawing, photo-manipulation, fiber, sculpture, tattooing, performance, sound, and installation. I aim to convey how I experience inhabiting and, in doing so, to awaken awareness in other minds, bodies, and worlds as they inhabit.