Even before this exhibition, Ana Laura Aláez’s first solo show in Madrid, it was clear that this artist possessed her own, unmistakable language. Working in various media, Aláez examines how subjectivity is constructed in relation to objects as well as to the body (and even to other subjects). On one level her work is an attempt to suggest “alternative engineerings of the self.” For example, Aláez enters into a dialogue with the world of fashion, but for her it is not simply a question of verifying how such a system of signs reinforces preexisting constructions of subjectivity, but of examining