ELENA AFIRMATIVA
INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS
I understand my artistic practice as a desiring practice, where the starting point is always the drive to understand, express, and/or transform what I observe in the contemporary world. This attentive, poetic observation of what surrounds me forms the core of the process and places me in a kind of paradox. On the one hand, I search relentlessly, and that search might look like a form of straying, as if I were entering paths so narrow that they make the whole fall out of view. Yet in reality it is a state of sustained attention, a threshold between searching and finding, where my body, my gaze, and my gestures are an inseparable part of the phenomenon observed. On that threshold there exists a vital and artistic orienting energy that allows me to explore what may be. In this sense, my work does not subscribe to the logic of “knowing in advance,” but rather to that of “daring to try,” accepting that the possible is the field of action of my artistic praxis—where I truly feel at ease—and always in tune with the words of Albert Esteve de Quesada: “every project is desire, need, and possibility” (2001, p. 11).
Esteve de Quesada, A. (2001). Creación y proyecto. El método en diseño y otras artes. Institució Alfons el Magnànim.









