Alicia Framis is a renowned Shanghai-based audiovisual artist. She does not create art in a wholly traditional sense though - she creates projects.

As an artist, Framis brings up questions about the way in which society is organized - architecturally, socially and economically. It is society's vulnerable members, the socially excluded, that she zeroes in on: from battered women to the lonely, insomniacs and smokers. Offering specific, offbeat proposals for the solution of some of these modern-day issues, Framis always thinks in terms of alternative strategies and is the epitome of the contemporary artist who cuts loose from traditional conceptions of the artistic practice.