BIO
Erola Arcalís (b. 1986 Menorca; lives and works in London, UK) is a multidisciplinary artist working across photography, moving image and text. Arcalís combines images of abstract landscapes and sculptural still life to create fictions around individual and collective memories, re-told in ways beyond a linear temporal narrative. Drawing on mythology and poetry, her practice navigates staged scenes and the chance encounter, historical research and personal experience. Arcalís has exhibited in the Spanish contemporary art institutions Casal Solleric and Centro Cultural Galieo, has shown work with Copperfield Gallery and Peckham24 (London, UK) and most recently with Hauser & Wirth Menorca.
CV
MA Photography, Royal College of Art (2017)
selected exhibitions
2023 (April - October, Spain)
After the Mediterranean
Hauser & Wirth Menorca
2023 (May - September, Spain)
Flotsam (and other utopias)
Casal Solleric
contemporary art institution
solo show
2023 (October, Spain)
What if, If only
Studio Weil
2022 (July - October, Spain)
Constel·lacions
Studio Weil
2020 (January - March, London, UK)
(This) precious
stone set in the silver sea
Copperfield Gallery
2019 (September, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Futures
Unseen
2019 (June, Madrid, Spain)
Descubrimientos Photo España
Centro Cultural Galileo
2019 (May, London, UK)
Rehearsing
the Real
Peckham24
2019 (May, Lisbon, Portugal)
Paisajes Esenciales
JustLX fair
2018 (May, 2018, London, UK)
A
Corner With Erola Arcalís
A Corner With
residencies and awards
Artist Residency Hauser & Wirth Menorca
April 2023
Arist Residency LaValle
organized by l’Aquila Reale Arte e Natura
with the support of Homesession and Institut Ramon Llull
Licenza, Italy, September and November 2022
Shortlisted for Barbara Weil Award
Majorca, September 2023 and July 2022
Shortlisted for Descubrimientos, PhotoEspaña
Madrid, June 2019
Selected artist of FUTURES 2020
Amsterdam, 2019-20
notes on the image making process
The majority of images appearing on this website are digital scans from 5x4 large format film. The final artworks are gelatin silver prints caringly handprinted in the darkoom by the artist using durable FB (fibre base) Ilford black and white paper.
