WORKS

The artistic practice of Elizabeth Torres (Madam Neverstop) spans poetry, visual art, performance, and multimedia installations, reflecting a sustained commitment to interdisciplinary artistic research. Rather than remaining within the limits of a single medium, her work integrates language, sound, image, and embodied action, treating these elements as interdependent forms of inquiry. This hybrid approach positions poetry as a catalyst for dialogue across artistic, cultural, and social contexts.

Her projects explore themes such as migration, environmental concerns, neurodiversity, identity, and the intersections of art and politics. These concerns emerge through practices that are both critical and embodied, engaging audiences in reflective and participatory ways. Initiatives such as The Poetic Phonothèque and Red Door Magazine, alongside her performative and installation work, illustrate how her practice operates as an ecological process—an open system in which memory, narrative, and artistic media intersect to generate new possibilities for cultural reflection and exchange.

Within this section, her body of work is presented across five interrelated areas:

• Video: A collection of videopoems where poetic language is expanded through moving image and sound, producing immersive audiovisual experiences.
• Visual: Drawings, illustrations, and paintings that extend her poetic practice into the visual field, translating metaphor and narrative into image.
• Performance: Installations, stage works, and multimedia presentations that bring poetry into embodied, spatial, and participatory contexts. These enactments bring together spoken word, projection, sound, and direct engagement with the audience to dissolve the boundary between poetry and lived encounter, as well as international collaborations with actors, directors and other multimedia artists.
• Books: Published works that document her sustained contributions to poetry and cultural discourse across multiple languages and editorial projects. published in Spanish, English, Danish, German, and other languages. Notable works include La Lotería: Sorteo Nocturno / The Lottery: Nocturnal Sweepstakes, winner of the 2022 Ambroggio Prize and released by the University of Arizona Press, alongside bilingual and illustrated editions such as Det Usynlige Sår and The Ways of the Firefly.
• Poetry: A multilingual selection of her poetic writing in Spanish, English, Danish, German, and translations into Finnish, Swedish, Ukrainian, and Serbian, among other languages.

Together, these categories map a practice that is at once multimodal, research-driven, and rooted in the belief that poetry can serve as a site of cultural memory, ecological awareness, and social imagination.