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.