Magdalena Hart
UK / Uruguay, in Barcelona, Spain
I am presently an artist-in-residence at Tandem x Casa R.A.R.O, as well as at Maker Sherpa at the Centre Cívic Convent Sant Agustí.
My practice explores porosity as a methodology that allows me to inhabit decomposition and sustain sensitivity within contexts of accelerated transformation and deep erosion. A method for softening the boundaries between bodies, languages, technologies, and the territories we cross.
I approach my research as a process of composting in which I understand the archive as a territory that fractures, ferments, decays and reorganizes into new forms of intimacy: a gesture of revisiting what is kept, archived, and what is buried. Formats emerge, made with accessible materials, that register traces of time and displacement. I explore how fragility can generate care, how matter becomes language, and how subtlety enables forms of permanence.
My work unfolds through sensitive devices and situated installations, from the necessary revision of the concept of nature, activating technologies to expand my ways of perceiving beyond dominant modes of knowledge production. I am drawn to the vocabularies that are missing when we speak about care, interspecies alliances, and possible futures. Porosity allows me to listen in order to build more situated and sensitive relationships.
I have cultivated long-term collaborations with riverine, oceanic, and estuarine waters, wild plants, and polluted soils across diverse ecosystems in Uruguay and Europe, moving between erosion, care, and repair.
Since 2019, I have co-led Akyute, an artistic duo with Natalia Gima, in which 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 within my individual practice that investigates glassblowing, water, and wearable forms.
That same year, I co-founded Manglar, a transdisciplinary collective of Latin American artists and researchers based at the WetLab at Hangar, an experimental project inspired by the mangrove ecosystem. Manglar proposes situated sciences that de-universalize the scientific gesture by integrating the body as both site and perspective.
My work has been presented at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, Circuito Ecuestre, Barcelona Design Festival, Madrid Design Festival, Il·Lacions Gallery, CosmoCaixa, MIRA Festival, and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Uruguay, among others.
Featured on: Metal Magazine, Art Connect, Alla Carta Magazine, Forever Young Magazine, within others.
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UK / Uruguay, in Barcelona, Spain
I am presently an artist-in-residence at Tandem x Casa R.A.R.O, as well as at Maker Sherpa at the Centre Cívic Convent Sant Agustí.
My practice explores porosity as a methodology that allows me to inhabit decomposition and sustain sensitivity within contexts of accelerated transformation and deep erosion. A method for softening the boundaries between bodies, languages, technologies, and the territories we cross.
I approach my research as a process of composting in which I understand the archive as a territory that fractures, ferments, decays and reorganizes into new forms of intimacy: a gesture of revisiting what is kept, archived, and what is buried. Formats emerge, made with accessible materials, that register traces of time and displacement. I explore how fragility can generate care, how matter becomes language, and how subtlety enables forms of permanence.
My work unfolds through sensitive devices and situated installations, from the necessary revision of the concept of nature, activating technologies to expand my ways of perceiving beyond dominant modes of knowledge production. I am drawn to the vocabularies that are missing when we speak about care, interspecies alliances, and possible futures. Porosity allows me to listen in order to build more situated and sensitive relationships.
I have cultivated long-term collaborations with riverine, oceanic, and estuarine waters, wild plants, and polluted soils across diverse ecosystems in Uruguay and Europe, moving between erosion, care, and repair.
Since 2019, I have co-led Akyute, an artistic duo with Natalia Gima, in which 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 within my individual practice that investigates glassblowing, water, and wearable forms.
That same year, I co-founded Manglar, a transdisciplinary collective of Latin American artists and researchers based at the WetLab at Hangar, an experimental project inspired by the mangrove ecosystem. Manglar proposes situated sciences that de-universalize the scientific gesture by integrating the body as both site and perspective.
My work has been presented at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, Circuito Ecuestre, Barcelona Design Festival, Madrid Design Festival, Il·Lacions Gallery, CosmoCaixa, MIRA Festival, and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Uruguay, among others.
Featured on: Metal Magazine, Art Connect, Alla Carta Magazine, Forever Young Magazine, within others.
View CV / Contact
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