ALBA TORMO OLIVELLA



atormoolivella@gmail.com

Alba Tormo Olivella (Barcelona, ES) is a visual designer and interdisciplinary artist based in London. Her work spans installation, moving image, printed matter, and performance, blending analog and digital processes across the music industrie.

Rooted in a feminine perspective and a deep connection to nature, her practice explores themes of awareness, transience, and reconnection—inviting a reflective return to the essence of both the natural world and the self.



WORK



Projects
Visuals
Flyers
Logos/Lettering
Covers
Others
Services 


BRAND STRATEGY
Creative Direction
Art Direction
Branding

GRAPHIC DESIGN
Visual Identity
Logotype
Lettering
Packaging
Textile Graphics
Posters
Vinyls & Covers

DIGITAL
Illustration
Video Graphics
Motion Graphics
Animation
Audiovisuals

MUSIC & LIVE
Visuals for Live Shows
Scenography 


Clients  

MUSIC & ENTERTAINMENT

  • Dabadaba Club
  • Draft
  • FiestaxFiesta
  • Próxima
  • SMIILE Records
  • Universal Music Spain
  • Visual Slavery

ARTISTS & DJs

  • Adelaida
  • AINES
  • Ana Guerra
  • Balma
  • Belén Aguilera
  • Chloé Caillet
  • Emma Roca
  • Julieta
  • Mushkaa
  • Ona Ángeles
  • Ricardo Acosta
  • Susi Abanades

Fashion

  • Atfirstsightstudio






LIGHT WORKS
The world lives, as it were, on the boundary between its own context and another unknown context.
This first exploration is born from the attempt to materialize a specific experience that takes place in that in-between space.
It speaks of how parallel planes meet in the space we inhabit when something forces us to stop trying. Something pushes us inward to find the light, both literally and figuratively.
And it was that unknown thing that took hold of me on the day I put to sleep the baby I was nannying in England. Faced with his crying, calling for his mother, nothing I did could soothe him. In the end, when I surrendered to his crying and lay beside him with nothing left to do, something unknown expressed itself through my voice. I sang a lullaby I did not know I carried. And in that moment, the baby instantly fell asleep.
This first exploration materializes that moment.
The light is the visible expression of how something invisible and unknown takes form and manifests itself, using the body as a channel of expression.


ANOMALIA
Así fue el proceso para lograr la instalación de la primera edición de @anomalia.club 
Cuerpo de Cuerno
A book born from a domestic accident while preparing ginger tea, repurposing ginger as a conduit for connection. Inspired by Glenn Adamson’s The Case for Material Intelligence (Aeon Magazine, November 2018)—“It takes just a moment to invest it with specialness.”

As the water evaporated, ginger dried, unveiling a new language. Transformed into jewelry and bodily shields, it became a medium for exploring matter, transformation, protection, and grounding—embedding everyday materials with significance.




Collaborative installation
by @anadrckr, @sofimezaaa, @cavvdal & @albaalbixx
Initially commissioned by @proxima________ for INTRO x PROXIMARotting Cycles is a collaborative installation that explores the parallels between natural and artificial decomposition. The project originated from a series of sculptures by @anadrckr and expanded through interdisciplinary contributions from the artists involved.

The work was first presented as part of INTRO x PROXIMA, and later exhibited at Lethaby Gallery, London (2024). The installation features an original soundscape by Antonio Meza.

Through materials, sound, and immersive forms, Rotting Cycles invites viewers to see, hear, and feel the poetry of decay — a process often marginalized or rejected in contemporary culture. The installation reframes decomposition and rot as vital, cyclical forces that continuously regenerate and sustain ecological balance.


Chairs & Power, Chairs & Gender:The chair was examined as a metaphor for gender roles and domesticity. Through photography and sculpture, a chair was constructed to embody the experience of being a daughter and sister with a maternal role, reflecting the self-imposed and socially constructed expectations placed on women within familial structures, where care and affection are intertwined with sacrifice and obligation. The piece was intentionally discomforting, prompting critical engagement with how patriarchal systems shape femininity and the potential for resistance. This inquiry led to further exploration of the socio-political significance of chairs, understanding them as symbols of support, hierarchy, and exclusion.


À tu Vera Bajo Tierra
Presented on Saturday, June 28th, 2024, at SITIO (Barcelona), À tu Vera, Bajo Tierra was Alba Albix’s first solo exhibition.

The installation followed Salomé’s deep descent into the invisible—driven by an urgent need to understand another way of living: one that is unfamiliar and unpredictable. A world where you learn without seeing, where things grow horizontally and inward. Life emerges from the fingertips, and its inhabitants have tentacles that curl around the unknown.
There is moisture. Everything breathes slowly.
And lives forever.

The piece was accompanied by a sonic journey by @edulcorants and @ainessanjo 





Capsule Coasters

Proposal for Space Talk London: 

These coasters function as sound capsules that activate when you leave the bar. In the dim interior, they seem silent and only display the shapes of their design. But when exposed to sunlight, they transform: a hidden QR code, printed with UV ink, is surprisingly revealed.

This code leads to a sound recording, (a set or musical piece by an artist who has performed at the space), turning each coaster into a singular sound memory of the space.

The design was born from walking and observing the surroundings, capturing and composing natural forms that represent connectivity and community in subtle ways.

Small landscape collections, fragments found during walks, encapsulated in an everyday object, propose an experience of contemplation and active listening.

Sunlight acts as an agent of transformation and activation, revealing what the coaster holds within. This idea is inspired by the transformative power of light, turning a functional object into a unique sensory and sonic experience.