Meet the Artist: Alicia Blam
Alicia Blam at ADMIRALS RESIDENCE in collaboration with artists: Lauren Bickerdike • Athenkosi Kwinana
To witness Alicia Blam work is to watch someone stitch the invisible back into the world.
A trained psychologist and dance movement therapist based in Barcelona, Alicia works at the fragile seam between art and healing. Her practice — which spans sculpture, photography, performance, and site-specific installation — is deeply informed by trauma studies, body memory, and the unspoken language of gesture.
She does not chase spectacle. She listens to what’s been left unsaid.
“Sometimes the most radical thing we can do is pause. Pay attention. Let the body speak first.”
During the Safe Spaces residency, Alicia’s presence has been quiet but unmistakable — a kind of gravitational field. Her workshop has been the garden, the mountain and the beach using little more than breath, stillness, and a single chair.
Her past works, including La presencia de una ausencia and Som (in)visibles, address the body as archive — of absence, exile, and emergence. At The ADMIRALS RESIDENCE, she’s expanded that inquiry to include communal space. What happens when the chair is shared?
You may not remember everything Alicia says. But you will remember how the space feels around her.
Come sit. Something might unfold.
Location: 64 Windermere Road, Muizenberg. Date: 13 August 2025 Time: 17:00 – 20:00 Come as witness, guest, or participant. There is space for you here.
Meet the Artist: Alicia Blam
Alicia Blam at ADMIRALS RESIDENCE in collaboration with artists: Lauren Bickerdike • Athenkosi Kwinana
To witness Alicia Blam work is to watch someone stitch the invisible back into the world.
A trained psychologist and dance movement therapist based in Barcelona, Alicia works at the fragile seam between art and healing. Her practice — which spans sculpture, photography, performance, and site-specific installation — is deeply informed by trauma studies, body memory, and the unspoken language of gesture.
She does not chase spectacle. She listens to what’s been left unsaid.
“Sometimes the most radical thing we can do is pause. Pay attention. Let the body speak first.”
During the Safe Spaces residency, Alicia’s presence has been quiet but unmistakable — a kind of gravitational field. Her workshop has been the garden, the mountain and the beach using little more than breath, stillness, and a single chair.
Her past works, including La presencia de una ausencia and Som (in)visibles, address the body as archive — of absence, exile, and emergence. At The ADMIRALS RESIDENCE, she’s expanded that inquiry to include communal space. What happens when the chair is shared?
You may not remember everything Alicia says. But you will remember how the space feels around her.
Come sit. Something might unfold.
Location: 64 Windermere Road, Muizenberg. Date: 13 August 2025 Time: 17:00 – 20:00 Come as witness, guest, or participant. There is space for you here.
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