ESTHER ALDAZ ‘Morar’

This project includes a selection of works made by the Gran Canarian artist Esther Aldaz over the last ten years, between 2016 and 2025, although her artistic career began in the first decade of the 2000s. All of them have the same common thread: the action of inhabiting, either through photographs documenting actions carried out in different places (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Cairo, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Havana, Barcelona, El Hierro or Santa Lucía de Tirajana) or through pieces materialised in multiple disciplines and languages with which the artist appeals to all the senses, converting the exhibition space itself into a place to dwell, both individually and collectively.

Esther Aldaz explores alternative ways of inhabiting that range from the body itself to words, penetrating the boundaries between the intimate and the public, the personal and the shared, the personal and the political, making visible the immense fragility and vulnerable nature of our existence. The concept of dwelling is shown as an interval or refuge of transit, profoundly unstable and in perpetual construction —the same as identity—, which in the end becomes utopia given the impossibility of any form of permanence. The house in Esther Aldaz’s work does not embody rootedness, but rather its opposite. Finding shelter or a den to stay in is part of our animal essence, which also underlines the irreducible otherness and the wandering condition of our being. The search for a place in the world never ends. Dwelling sounds like loving.

Marta Mantecón
Curator

IMAGE GALLERIES

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