[1] Over several years, Alicia Paz has focused on the tension between artifice/ illusion and the veracity of actual processes involved in painting, exposing the duplicitous nature of representation.
Through her work, she explores notions of hybridity, assemblage, and metamorphosis, focusing particularly on the female figure: the self is experienced and presented as multiple, fluid, paradoxical.
Strange and unsettling visions of tree-women and monster-women also represent the fusion of the subject with painting itself: she often depicts amphibian or plant-like figures “weeping” pigment, their limbs, hair, and various ornamental accoutrements mud-caked and dripping, as if extracted from a colourful, post-cognitive swamp.
[4][5] Paz is working on a large research and production project exploring the network of women that are playing an important rule in her life, personally and professionally.
[10][11][12] In 2024, the curator Bénédicte Delay, presented a solo show of Paz' work under the title Explorations au féminin at the Château de Haroué in Eastern France, in collaboration with the Centre des monuments nationaux CMN.