Magdalena Hart
UK / Uruguay, in Barcelona, Spain
My practice explores porosity as a way of listening, processing, and relating, a method for softening the boundaries between bodies, languages, technologies, and the territories we cross. As I am interested in stories of movement, migration, and ecology, my work often involves learning to listen to humans, water, glass, plants, soil or snakes. I approach my artistic research as a living, composting process, where reflections, materials, and digital traces decay, ferment, and reorganize into new forms of intimacy.
I am drawn to the vocabularies that are missing when we speak about care, the more-than-human, and ecological futures, and to the ways ancestral, scientific, and intuitive technologies might help us listen beyond dominant modes of knowledge production, particularly within the contexts of the Global South.
My work unfolds through sculptural objects, site-specific installations, participatory devices, and deep listening methodologies that invite slowness, attention, and permeability. I merge craft techniques such as glassblowing and metalwork with digital interactivity and speculative ecologies, creating environments where knowledge can be organic and computational, moving between erosion, care, and repair.
Since 2019, I have co-led Akyute, an artistic duo with Natalia Gima, where we explore ecological sensitivity beyond human-centered frameworks through interactive installations and performances. From this dialogue emerged Rain and Rivers in 2023, a series of works developed through my solo practice that investigates glass, water, and wearable forms. That same year, I co-founded Manglar, a transdisciplinary collective of Latin American artists and researchers, brought together in a WetLab. Together we developed an experimental project inspired by the mangrove ecosystem. Manglar proposes situated sciences that deuniversalize the scientific gesture, integrating the body as both site and perspective.
My work has been presented at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, Madrid Design Festival, Il·Lacions Gallery, CosmoCaixa, Mira Festival, and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Uruguay, among others.
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UK / Uruguay, in Barcelona, Spain
My practice explores porosity as a way of listening, processing, and relating, a method for softening the boundaries between bodies, languages, technologies, and the territories we cross. As I am interested in stories of movement, migration, and ecology, my work often involves learning to listen to humans, water, glass, plants, soil or snakes. I approach my artistic research as a living, composting process, where reflections, materials, and digital traces decay, ferment, and reorganize into new forms of intimacy.
I am drawn to the vocabularies that are missing when we speak about care, the more-than-human, and ecological futures, and to the ways ancestral, scientific, and intuitive technologies might help us listen beyond dominant modes of knowledge production, particularly within the contexts of the Global South.
My work unfolds through sculptural objects, site-specific installations, participatory devices, and deep listening methodologies that invite slowness, attention, and permeability. I merge craft techniques such as glassblowing and metalwork with digital interactivity and speculative ecologies, creating environments where knowledge can be organic and computational, moving between erosion, care, and repair.
Since 2019, I have co-led Akyute, an artistic duo with Natalia Gima, where we explore ecological sensitivity beyond human-centered frameworks through interactive installations and performances. From this dialogue emerged Rain and Rivers in 2023, a series of works developed through my solo practice that investigates glass, water, and wearable forms. That same year, I co-founded Manglar, a transdisciplinary collective of Latin American artists and researchers, brought together in a WetLab. Together we developed an experimental project inspired by the mangrove ecosystem. Manglar proposes situated sciences that deuniversalize the scientific gesture, integrating the body as both site and perspective.
My work has been presented at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, Madrid Design Festival, Il·Lacions Gallery, CosmoCaixa, Mira Festival, and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Uruguay, among others.
See CV / Contact
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