I’m interested in exploring the transformative potential of memory and the ephemeral. Currently, this occurs through drumming, drawing, and speaking.
My work employs translation (of medium, context, references) as a tool to allow meaning to fluctuate, creating personal narratives that reveal queer poetics. Fragments are borrowed, rearranged, or misused. I am drawn to things that disappear while trying to make ideas last. While my work is about change (meaning, perception, transness, transformations), it is also about connecting, relocating, documenting, and grounding oneself. Ultimately, my practice attempts to remember my life, recognizing that it was lived by many people.
In 2022, I graduated from the Moving Image department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie (NL), and since then, I have presented work in institutions and contexts such as; Arti et Amicitiae, Perdu, Stedelijk Museum, Garage Noord (Amsterdam); La Casa Encendida, Matadero (Madrid); Fundació Miró (Barcelona); ICA London. In January 2025, I opened my first solo show, “Ritmos y Poemas”, at Kunsthalle Lissabon, and it felt great.
Occasionally, I contribute to the art criticism platform Tangents.
For 2025-2026, my practice is being generously supported by the Mondriaan Fonds with the Artist Start Grant <3
hit me up here ↓
louvives@protonmail.com
@_vives_
My work employs translation (of medium, context, references) as a tool to allow meaning to fluctuate, creating personal narratives that reveal queer poetics. Fragments are borrowed, rearranged, or misused. I am drawn to things that disappear while trying to make ideas last. While my work is about change (meaning, perception, transness, transformations), it is also about connecting, relocating, documenting, and grounding oneself. Ultimately, my practice attempts to remember my life, recognizing that it was lived by many people.
In 2022, I graduated from the Moving Image department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie (NL), and since then, I have presented work in institutions and contexts such as; Arti et Amicitiae, Perdu, Stedelijk Museum, Garage Noord (Amsterdam); La Casa Encendida, Matadero (Madrid); Fundació Miró (Barcelona); ICA London. In January 2025, I opened my first solo show, “Ritmos y Poemas”, at Kunsthalle Lissabon, and it felt great.
Occasionally, I contribute to the art criticism platform Tangents.
For 2025-2026, my practice is being generously supported by the Mondriaan Fonds with the Artist Start Grant <3
hit me up here ↓
louvives@protonmail.com
@_vives_