Irene Vivas Lalinde

ARTIST’S PROFILE

Irene Vivas Lalinde began writing again during the pandemic, when everything was unsteady and literature became a refuge. Since then, she has participated in spaces like @selectaescritura, guided by Kike Parra and Bárbara Blasco, and at Can Serrat, where she found the tone of her novel thanks to the unique atmosphere of that residency near the Montserrat Massif.

Her work has been shared in the online magazine @hyperbole, where she has published short fiction and portraits of real people such as Caroline and Rocío, activists from the Mar Menor, and the German-Turkish producer, DJ, and musician Erman Erim. In 2021, her story Once was included in a self-published book: Guía definitiva de la espera (2021).

Her professional life and activism have focused on the climate crisis. She has taken part in youth climate delegations at the COP in Glasgow and Sharm El Sheikh. In 2024, she was invited by the U.S. State Department to participate in an exchange with climate change experts from around the world. She also co-founded the initiative FLORIR with Emilio Beladiez and Julia Furió—a retreat to care for other activists. She currently works on one of the largest EU initiatives for urban climate mitigation.

Because of all this, she is deeply aware of the importance of translating scientific evidence into a new collective imagination—one that frames human experience within an ecosystem where we are interdependent organisms sharing space and resources.

“In Endangered Species” (working title), her first novel which she hopes to finish at La Moissie, she brings to life Morgan, a woman living in a big city who faces the dilemma of becoming a mother in an overheated, decaying world.

She was born and lives in Valencia (Spain), but also feels at home in Brussels, Bogotá, and her village in La Rioja.

Read about Irene’s residency project below…

“During the residency, she wants to soften, to relax her sense of alertness, so she can finish the manuscript of her first novel: Endangered Species (working title), where she explores the existential questions of a woman in a world in decline. What does it mean to live on a planet warming by more than two or three degrees Celsius—in our bodies, in the cities where we live, in our desires?”