Magdalena Hart, @ Manglar
@ Rain and Rivers
@ Akyute Collective
(1994)
Barcelona, ES
I present myself as an Uruguayan-English artist rooted in Barcelona. My practice is nurtured by critical art, ecology, and digital technology. Through my work, I aim to construct narratives and tools that deepen my relationship with the environments I inhabit.
What began in 2019 with the question “How can we integrate nature into an increasingly digitalized era?” evolved in 2023 into “How can we imagine a future constrained by the lack of vocabulary?”
While working with digital technology to broaden my capacity for listening, I realized that in order to connect with the systems I inhabit, I must first connect withthose internally. As how can I listen, when I can´t hear my own body?
I explore how metaphors can open internal spaces and serve as a poetic medium to expand my ecological perspectives within the context of the Anthropocene.
My process has moved through several phases—earth and plants in 2019, water in 2021—and my current practice focuses on fire and glass. This material embodies a constant dialogue between fragility and resilience, fluidity and rigidity. Working with glass becomes an extension of my body: its movement reflects my mood, its behavior reveals my patience, and its response teaches me about the need for balance. When glass is stressed, its language shifts—colors change, lines appear—revealing a subtle narrative that demands listening and presence. This process, which requires precise synchronization between time and gravity, ritualizes the relationships between body, space, and time, leading me to a deeper exploration of how I inhabit fragility and transformation.
In my project Rain and Rivers (2023), I work through the lense of “even fire needs to breathe, and how air can create space.” My collaborations with galleries such as Apoc Store, Adorno Gallery, and Il·lacions Gallery have been ways to materialize this dialogue. Through these pieces, I aim to bring spaces for sensitivity into my routine.
Since 2019, as part of Akyute, an artistic duo I co-founded with Natalia Gima, we have developed interactive installations that use digital technology to integrate “nature” in an increasingly digitalized era. Living technology that expands ecological sensitivities. These works, foster organic interactions and explore fluid communication between species.
In 2023, I joined Manglar, a transdisciplinary initiative born during the Humedal residency at Hangar's Wetlab. This project brought together seven members from Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, and Catalonia to develop an experimental project inspired by the mangrove ecosystem: a transitional space where water and land meet, breathing with the tides and connecting bodies and energies. This project proposes practices of “situated sciences” that deuniversalize scientific gestures, incorporating the body as both place and perspective.
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Barcelona, ES
I present myself as an Uruguayan-English artist rooted in Barcelona. My practice is nurtured by critical art, ecology, and digital technology. Through my work, I aim to construct narratives and tools that deepen my relationship with the environments I inhabit.
What began in 2019 with the question “How can we integrate nature into an increasingly digitalized era?” evolved in 2023 into “How can we imagine a future constrained by the lack of vocabulary?”
While working with digital technology to broaden my capacity for listening, I realized that in order to connect with the systems I inhabit, I must first connect withthose internally. As how can I listen, when I can´t hear my own body?
I explore how metaphors can open internal spaces and serve as a poetic medium to expand my ecological perspectives within the context of the Anthropocene.
My process has moved through several phases—earth and plants in 2019, water in 2021—and my current practice focuses on fire and glass. This material embodies a constant dialogue between fragility and resilience, fluidity and rigidity. Working with glass becomes an extension of my body: its movement reflects my mood, its behavior reveals my patience, and its response teaches me about the need for balance. When glass is stressed, its language shifts—colors change, lines appear—revealing a subtle narrative that demands listening and presence. This process, which requires precise synchronization between time and gravity, ritualizes the relationships between body, space, and time, leading me to a deeper exploration of how I inhabit fragility and transformation.
In my project Rain and Rivers (2023), I work through the lense of “even fire needs to breathe, and how air can create space.” My collaborations with galleries such as Apoc Store, Adorno Gallery, and Il·lacions Gallery have been ways to materialize this dialogue. Through these pieces, I aim to bring spaces for sensitivity into my routine.
Since 2019, as part of Akyute, an artistic duo I co-founded with Natalia Gima, we have developed interactive installations that use digital technology to integrate “nature” in an increasingly digitalized era. Living technology that expands ecological sensitivities. These works, foster organic interactions and explore fluid communication between species.
In 2023, I joined Manglar, a transdisciplinary initiative born during the Humedal residency at Hangar's Wetlab. This project brought together seven members from Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, and Catalonia to develop an experimental project inspired by the mangrove ecosystem: a transitional space where water and land meet, breathing with the tides and connecting bodies and energies. This project proposes practices of “situated sciences” that deuniversalize scientific gestures, incorporating the body as both place and perspective.
See CV / Contact
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