Artistic process

Catherine Gil Alcala began drawing after rehearsals for a theatre of dream-like images …
The theatre of dreams thereafter metamorphosed into writing, which she has started translating into Spanish and English.

Poetry, theatre, performance, visual arts …
Borders are porous, arts intermingle …
Passionate about the primitive arts and rituals and mythologies from all over the world, she feels she has a relationship with the animist world.
Creation is an introspective initiation, the reinvention of a forgotten world … archaic yet new …
As a self-taught artist, her work is rooted in in the realm of imagination.
Just as her dreams of painting turn into poems scribbled on the blank page of every fresh day, her drawings are apparitions in the void …
They highlight a hitherto unknown aspect of reality …