Through sculpture, video, sound, drawings, and the collection of artifacts, Mayen Alcantara employs a number of strategies that explore an expanded notion of terrain. Her work ranges from a video mapping locations within the Providence Place Mall using a lexicon of body movements derived from bees to a 2500 square foot outdoor installation of solar powered led lights that “re-contours” the topography of a section of the Fidelity campus. The body of work reflects a hybrid form of artistic practice that straddles scientific inquiry and aimless wandering.
In 2003, Mayen Alcantara gave up a simple life to join the international jet set as the poster child for wanderlust. She is currently an MFA candidate at Rhode Island School of Design.
