Isabel Bonafé

Bio

In my practice, I try to relate the way we consume, perceive and live with virtual images and some physical phenomena that question our common sense and the ordinary experience. Using elements related to electromagnetism and optics, light and vision, I create installations that seem to blur the boundary between the physical and the virtual and are rooted in questions that concern memory, presence and the ontological status of photographic media.

BAFA (2014), University of Seville and MAFA (2019) University of Saint Martins, London. 2025- NARS Foundation Residency, New York City; INICIARTE Prize, Andalusian Agency for Cultural Institutions; solo show: messages of the collision, La Madraza, Granada; site-specific installation at San Bruno Chapel for ‘Tablao’ escenarios de formas en el arte contemporáneo andaluz at the Andalusian Center for Contemporary Art (CAAC); and collective show Omnímoda at MuCAC, Malaga. 2024 – solo show: la percepción resbala sobre las cosas sin tocarlas, at Espacio Derivado; Prize from the Artists Residency at the Center for Contemporary Creation of Andalusia C3A; nominated for the Prize Miquel Casablancas SAC, Barcelona and collective show Una nova arqueologia de la matèria, Fabra i Coats – Centre d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona. 2023- Prize ASECAS; duo show: Univers d’Itmages L’ETNO Museu Valencià together with Martínez Bellido; collective shows: HotSheet Photo Festival – DnBrixton Gallery, London; Baggage Claim – Staffordshirest gallery, London; among others.