Not Your Regular Wall: Benthos Unveiled by Elvira Amor

The seventh edition of “Not Your Regular Wall” by Elvira Amor is an extended presentation of the new project “ART x SCIENCE made in Spain.”

Not Your Regular Wall was born in 2018 with the purpose of giving Spanish artists the opportunity to intervene the hall of the Former Residence of the Ambassadors of Spain in Washington, D.C, which hosts the Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain. In 2025, the Cultural Office has invited the renowned Spanish painter Elvira Amor for the seventh edition of the project.

This year’s design presents Benthos Unveiled, a collaboration between artist Elvira Amor and scientist Carmen Cobo. The result highlights the diversity of benthic marine fauna, focusing on rare mollusks like solenogasters that inhabit environments from coral reefs to deep-sea basins. Combining scientific research and visual art, the project uses paintings and organic forms to recreate an underwater atmosphere, emphasizing the ecological importance of these often-overlooked species.

The seventh edition of Not Your Regular Wall is, at the same time, the first edition of ART x SCIENCE made in Spain.

Elvira Amor

Elvira Amor (Madrid, 1982) has a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Cuenca, 2003-2009). She has lived and studied in Madrid, Cuenca, Buenos Aires (Argentina), Puebla (Mexico), Brussels (Belgium), and Yogyakarta (Indonesia), holding exhibitions in each of these cities, and developing different projects.

The latest individual exhibitions she has presented are: Coral brick salmon (García Galeria, Madrid, 2018), Orange Delgado (Castellana22, Madrid, 2017). Other group exhibitions in which he participated are: S / T: Álvarez-Laviada, Amor, Barkate, Uriel (Moisés Pérez de Albéniz Gallery, Madrid, 2021); El abrazo, artists in dialogue at the Yera Collection (Convento de Sana Clara, Seville, 2020); Modern Love Vol. 1 (Fifth Floor, Mexico City 2017), Wet paint (Area 72, Valencia, 2016), Tachá mirror puts drawing (Fundación Lebensohn, Buenos Aires, 2013), or Alga todo y espumas (CCEBA-AECID, Buenos Aires 2013). She has received, among others, the Community of Madrid 2020 Production Aid, the 2015 Artistic Production Award from the Banco Santander-Open Studio Foundation, the 2017 VEGAP Plastic Arts Creation Aid, and the Madrid Community Mobility Grant 2017. She has participated in residencies such as Bilboarte (2021), Villa Vergerie 2020 (Laguarres, Huesca), Kankabal 2017 (Noox Galeria, Izamal, Yucatán, México); Zona Seis Residence (Luis Adelantado Gallery, Mexico 2016), and Mundo Dios 2012, Mar del Plata (Argentina).