Bayo Álvaro is a graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Toulouse and the École Supérieure de Beaux-Arts de Paris Cergy. His sculptural works use botanical abstractions in which personal memories resonate with collective narratives of desire and care. The creatures in her work seem intertwined in symbiosis, reflecting the way in which living beings continually draw closer to each other and transform themselves. Bayo Alvaro speaks of the exchanges, power dynamics, coexistences and conflicts that we experience both as individuals and as groups, using materials that make these interactions visible.
Bayo Álvaro’s work, which evokes a strange, alien flora, recalls Karen Barad’s descriptions of a “queer performativity” of nature. In this conception of the natural world, nothing is exclusively masculine or feminine, animate or inanimate; nor is it simply good or bad. Rather, there is an infinite potential for change and interaction. Bayo Álvaro uses mechanisms of representation and corporeality that reflect the way in which the flows of energy within materials influence each other. Bayo Álvaro’s work has been shown in a number of exhibitions in France, Morocco, Canada, Spain, Greece, the United States and Mexico. Most recently, Álvaro presented a solo exhibition “¡Suéltame!” at Galería Deli, Mexico City. In 2022, Bayo Alvaro presented two solo exhibitions “GOON” at El Arenero and “In the garden where we are dogs” at GAM CDMX.