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María Alcaide constructs an autobiographical fiction story based on a romantic affair that takes place in the refugee camps of Western Sahara. In this way, love takes a relevant role in the project, showing itself in this case not so much as a solution to hatred or fear but as the trigger of an epic story.
The project explores certain current cultural tensions such as Islamophobia or the tendency to radicalization and aestheticization of territorial identity using a language from the digital and youtuber world. This generates a universe impregnated with cultural stereotypes and hypercapitalist aesthetics through which Alcaide reflects on an emerging issue in a committed way, taking considerable risks.
In this work she incorporates cultural references specific to Andalusia and the Arab world, to question the concept of terrorism, going so far as to consider even “State Terrorism”, with a particular reference to the Spanish central government and its violent repression of peaceful protests, during the 2017 struggle in Catalonia. The artist's work, ironic at its base, manages to convey a bitter sweetness that reminds us that each of our positionings as individuals are eminently political.