WHOSDAGRL — a contraction of Madonna's "Who's That Girl" — is a body of work built on appropriation, subversion, and the reimagining the human body image.
Working in silkscreen, Alvaro mixes colors directly on the screen to embrace chance and materiality, while inserting his own face into iconic images drawn from Western art history. Through an unrealistic, pop-saturated palette, he redirects these historically male-authored representations of women into images that question inherited standards of beauty and desire.
Text and image converge in this work, layered to invite multiple readings. Taking it beyond the studio, Alvaro wheat-pastes these pieces across the vertical surfaces of the city — occupying urban space and the imagination of those who move through it.
WHOSDAGRL is part of the ongoing practice of Alvaro — silkscreen, appropriation, and visual dissent.
