Alex Bodea

My artistic practice unfolds through a delicate, sweet-bitterness humor—an emotional register that gently disarms while offering sharp insight. My work draws on the poetics of the everyday, employing minimal gestures and observational precision to create spaces of quiet resilience. In unfamiliar or shifting environments, this humor becomes both a healing force and a strategy of survival, revealing the understated strength of vulnerability and the persistent adaptability of the human spirit.

A practice which relies heavily on travelling, discovering and engaging with new places.

The themes I am addressing in my visual stories are abundant, given the constant nature of my travelling and feeling of displacement, with overall recurrent themes translatable across cultures such as: the experience of migration, queerness, questioning of femininity and masculinity as cultural constructs, recurrent inequality in different geographical locations, mental and physical health, marginal characters, non-patriarchal models and the concept of unconventional beauty.

An overall feeling of a staged theatre play or flamboyant opera is palpable and significant in my work, and this comes both from my adaptive habit of perceiving a new place as a spectacle I am invited to watch (easier to take it in), and from that side in my queerness that feels a connection with a baroque, over-the-top, showy mise en scène. The staging aspect is most visible in the way I render movement, which is dynamic and telling of extrovert emotions. I also use movement in order to turn secondary, dull details into main stage attractions and transform small, everyday gestures into timeless rituals.