Alicia Framis

BLOODY WEEKEND.SHANGHAI.2008
3D DRAWING/CANSON FINE ART A4

CLARITY.SHANGHAI.2008
3D DRAWING/CANSON FINE ART

FAKE PAVILION.SHANGHAI.2007
3D DRAWING/CANSON FINE ART

CENSURED ROOM 1. SHANGHAI.2008
3D DRAWING/CANSON FINE ART

MICROPHONE SQUARE.SHANGHAI.2008
3D DRAWING/CANSON FINE ART

In common with other of Karriere’s artists, ALICIA FRAMIS does not create art in a wholly traditional sense. She creates projects. As an artist, FRAMIS brings up questions about the way in which society is organized – architecturally, socially and economically. What are the spaces we create around us?

With her project NEW BUILDINGS FOR CHINA (2007-2008), ALICIA FRAMIS reflects upon her experiences with repressive, unstable social relationships in China (she is resident in Shanghai for the last two years). She designs prototypes of buildings out of wood, plaster, polyester, and metal, and then exhibits them as computer-generated 3D drawings and models. Using ordinary objects such as rice bowls, microphones and pill boxes she constructs fantastic buildings, monuments and open structures to illustrate the control exercised by the system, the isolation of people, or the country’s restrictive family policies.