Beatrice Alvestad Lopez is a visual artist based in Oslo and Stockholm. She holds an MFA in Craft from Konstfack (Stockholm) and a BA in Textiles from Nuova Academia di Belle Arti (Milan) with an exchange at Pratt Institute (New York).
Alvestad Lopez's practice intertwines the themes of narrative, embodiment, and materiality, animated through installations of sculpture and new media. Sculptural processes as well as video performances including costume making are important elements. She engages raw, local materials, and works in site-specific contexts in order to create a dialogue between bodies and material. Through these processes, her work presents fictive scenarios, figures and myths that alternate between reality and the imaginary. Natures own debris as well as manipulated craft processes such as wood, metal and ceramics are mixed together. Her video performances place a lens into sites, embodiment and materiality, featuring slow motion fragments. Alvestad Lopez do field-work and residencies to expand her practice and connect to various communities and local trajectories of heritage and myths. She has over the last years been working extensively in Scandinavia as well as internationally.
Alvestad Lopez has recently exhibited in numerous art institutions such as Bomuldsfabrikken Kunsthall, Röhsska Museet, Konsthallen i Luleå, Collecteurs, House of Foundation, Steneby Konsthall and Västerbotten Museum among others.
