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Ela Fidalgo
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Born in 1993, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

Ela Fidalgo's artistic practice unfolds as an exercise in radical care, an intimate and political act that embraces vulnerability as a form of resistance. Through textiles, embroidery, pigments, and found objects, she constructs her own language where the imperfect, the unfinished, and the fragile become sources of truth and beauty.

Fidalgo works from a poetics of the body and emotion. Her works do not merely represent, but repair, embrace, confront, and transform. Her creative universe starts from the everyday and the personal, but opens up to the collective: where pain finds an echo, where wounds are no longer hidden but flourish in community.

Far from the logic of the market and spectacle, her work proposes a different temporality: slow, organic, deeply human. Each piece is born from long processes, repeated gestures, necessary pauses. Her studio is as much a place of listening as it is of action; an extension of her body, her history, and her affections.

Fidalgo champions art as a space for encountering the unsaid: fears, silences, memories that still burn. His installations, sculptures, and pictorial collages weave a tactile memory where the domestic becomes sacred, and the emotional becomes political. His work brings together craftsmanship and critical reflection; the intimate and the universal; presence and absence.

Ultimately, his work does not seek to offer answers, but rather to open up spaces where questions can be explored. Spaces where the viewer can recognize themselves, find support, and perhaps remember that the most beautiful thing is not what is shown, but what remains alive despite everything.

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EL PAÍS

Tom C. Avendaño
Ela Fidalgo, artista: “Ser raro es lo más maravilloso que te puede pasar”
2025

Diario de Mallorca

Amanda Rotger
La artista Ela Fidalgo presenta la obra textil ‘Fragmento Ausente’, con la que inaugura la Gallery Weekend de Madrid
2025

FUCKING YOUNG #26

Anna Barr
THE MAGNETIC ALLURE OF ELA FIDALGO’S ARTISTIC DIMENSIONS
2025

Diario de Mallorca

Montse Terrassa
Ela Fidalgo converts the Casal Solleric into a real public space
2025

Mallorca Diario

The sculpture “La madre”, by the Mallorcan artist Ela Fidalgo, donated by Cort to Son Espases
2025

NUEBO

Omar Poveda
Ela Fidalgo
2024

La Verdad

Una pieza textil de la mallorquina Ela Fidalgo, imagen de La Mar de Músicas
2024

RTVE - RNE Audio

LA RADIO TIENE OJOS - Ela Fidalgo
2024

PIECE WITH ARTIST

Ela Fidalgo
2024

La Vanguardia

Nacho Sánchez
Ela Fidalgo, la diseñadora que cambió la moda por el arte para criticar el consumismo
2023

CCMagazine

Cecilia Camacho
Ela Fidalgo, la artista que homenajea el cuerpo imperfecto y diverso
2023

Metal Magazine

Ona Poveda
Ela Fidalgo - El Glitch es bello
2023

ABC Cultural

Javier Díaz Guardiola
Ela Fidalgo: "El lobo de la moda es igual que el del arte, solo que con otra piel"
2023

Munchies Art Club Magazine

Dominique Catherina Foertig
Ela Fidalgo's Artistic Voyage: Navigating The Transition From Fashion Design To Contemporary Textile Art
2023

Vogue Spain

Eva Blanco Medina
Ela Fidalgo: “Cuando era diseñadora estaba delgadísima, supuestamente divina, pero estaba bien jodida de la cabeza”
2022

ABC Cultura

Javier Rubio Nomblot
'Fragmento ausente', de Ela Fidalgo: manos que aman
September 2025