Elvira Amor

Elvira Amor (Madrid, Spain, 1982) holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Cuenca, 2003-2009). She has lived and studied in Madrid, Cuenca, Buenos Aires (Argentina), Puebla (Mexico), Brussels (Belgium) and Yogyakarta (Indonesia), holding exhibitions in each of these cities and developing different projects. Her work is understood in a richer way when one accesses a larger group of works, a set in which certain forms are reiterated, producing variations and codas, almost as in a musical development. Elvira works the different canvases as a continuum in which ideas are repeated from one to another, transforming into themes that vary and alter in order to fully investigate all the possibilities they contain. In her paintings, Elvira Amor investigates communication, seeking a pre-verbal language that is sometimes eminently related to the classical discourses of the abstract painting tradition but which also incorporates details, forms or elements extracted from non-Western visual traditions. It is a painting more linked to the senses and the sensorial that attempts to strip its elements of a univocal and classifiable meaning and reading to expand into an experience of the open and the intangible. She has received, among others, the 2020 Community of Madrid Production Aid, the 2015 Artistic Production Award from the Banco Santander-Open Studio Foundation, the 2017 VEGAP Plastic Arts Creation Aid, or the 2017 Community of Madrid Mobility Grant. She has participated in residencies such as Bilboarte (2021), Villa Vergerie 2020 (Laguarres, Huesca), Kankabal 2017 (Noox Galeria, Izamal, Yucatán, Mexico); Zone Six Residency (Luis Adelantado Gallery, Mexico 2016) or God's World 2012, Mar del Plata (Argentina).