2023-11-20 23:43:09
Intense, peculiar and ambiguous. These are three of the adjectives with which the multidisciplinary artist identifies herself.r Alice Wonder, who will take the stage at the Teatro Colón on November 24 (9:00 p.m.) within the cycle They are artists to present his latest work, Fuck everything else. A tour that says goodbye to start working on his new project. “Something intense and mature is coming compared to what happened before,” she advances.
Does your stage name come from Alice in Wonderland?
Indeed. I have always loved it and I have felt that it was a little bit of my life. Since I was little I have drawn a lot and Alice in Wonderland has a very particular aesthetic. For me it was always a parallel universe to go to.
Did I need it when I was little?
Sometimes yes. Sometimes the world doesn’t live up to one’s imagination. When you want to escape from a certain sadness it is good to go to other places and form them in your head. Draw them, even.
Are you still drawing?
Yes, I draw a lot. In fact, I designed the merchandising I have, or the posters. I like photography, I like cinema, I really like cooking, I like fashion… if you give me something to sculpt I’ll make you a sculpture.
Perform next 24 in A Coruñawithin a tour with which he is closing a stage.
Yes, I am closing the most beautiful tour I have had in my career. It’s been three years of touring with an album that I thought wasn’t going to do much and it has done a lot. I really close a stage with a lot of love and a little sadness and nostalgia for it to be over. But I feel like I have to face my next task.
He is already presenting some new songs in his concerts.
Yes, I play two new songs live because I want to see how people enjoy them. They have nothing to do with each other, which I love. And I really want to develop the project because apart from the sound it also has a very peculiar aesthetic. I want to push myself to the limit, to see where we get to.
It speaks of a peculiar aesthetic. You too?
Yes, it seems that way (laughs). There was a time when I tried not to look like it for fear of not fitting in, but now I’m freeing myself. Part of the creative liberation that I am having is rediscovering my roots to the point of realizing that what has brought me here is the peculiarity of my image and my thoughts. It makes me have another perspective that I can then share with the rest and many will realize that peculiarity in themselves.
We all have quirks.
Indeed. At the concerts, the variety of audiences that have come denotes something. But right now I’m starting to trust more than ever in the peculiarity that each of us has, which makes us strong. If we start sharing it, I think it could be a very strong awakening of a kind of dream in which we have been immersed for many years.
You are intense, right?
Yes, I am intense, although in my daily life I am quite calm and simple. But I can’t help but be intense, it’s a feeling.
She once said that sometimes she is embarrassed to talk about how strange she has felt. Are you no longer ashamed?
I feel less and less ashamed, because I understand better and better how I have felt. Now I’m trying to do the job of putting my baby Ali, my girl Ali, in front of me and loving her in a way that I hadn’t allowed myself before. Then you understand many more things.
Have you needed help with that process?
I have been in therapy for a year and a half but I have always had a circle of family and friends with whom I have had a very nice dialogue of understanding and acceptance. Now with all that collected, I am doing the work alone with myself, embarking on the process of this new project and discovering tools that I did not know like this, of putting your little self on your feet and treating you with that more loving and sweeter perspective. Sweetness is something I hadn’t allowed myself before. Something intense and mature is coming, compared to the previous one.
Are you tired of being asked about Benidorm Fest?
No, but for me it is another experience, removing all the paraphernalia of what is another show. A very special show because we were able to develop ideas of a much larger size, for TV. The journey and the process that was a television contest, that thing doesn’t represent me so much but it was part of the game.
The festival arouses love and hate on networks. Do you pay much attention to him?
The truth is that no, I’m super lazy. I didn’t find out about the good or the bad, but I think there was very positive feedback at the time. You don’t have to give even half a damn to bad feedback.
Their concert in A Coruña is part of the cycle They are artists. Will there ever be a cycle from a public organization under the title They Are Artists?
I think so, if only to try to be modern. But hey, I think so, for sure. Right now they are artists, it is a bias that is good to have. But at some point there will have to be.
Has your ambiguity taken its toll on you?
Yes, many times, especially when I was little. It is something that cannot be fully understood if you do not live it. It is a very particular situation, having an ambiguity with something so representative of you. What I have learned is to free myself from the limits, they are in the head.
And society doesn’t set limits?
Yes, he puts them in his head first and then makes them real. I think it will be understood and we will be there so that people understand it. New children come with this learned. But the reminiscences of hate remain. Hate is much simpler than love.
Are you afraid of censorship?
Art in general is the direct antithesis to repression. I’m not afraid of censorship. There are people who think that something can cease to exist just by covering it up, but it doesn’t work that way. I am going to do what I have to do and if they censure me it will be part of the journey of learning, living it and then fighting it.
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