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UK / Uruguay, in Barcelona, Spain
Magdalena Hart practices porosity as a methodology that allows her to inhabit decomposition and sustain sensitivity within contexts of accelerated change and deep material wear. Her work unfolds through sensitive devices and interactive installations that expand her modes of perception beyond dominant forms of knowledge production.
Materially, her sculptural language is built from blown glass and the accumulation of residual elements, intertwined with multispecies alliances and low-tech practices. She approaches her research as a composting process, understanding her archive as a territory that ferments, decomposes, and reorganizes into new forms of intimacy. From this dialogue she learns from the gentleness of deterioration, an intelligence that inhabits things as they open toward their own undoing.
She is currently a resident of the following spaces: Hangar (Barcelona), Tandem x Casa R.A.R.O (Barcelona), and Maker Sherpa at the Centre Cívic Convent Sant Agustí (Barcelona).
She holds a Master’s degree in Audiovisual Innovation and Interactive Environments from BAU, Barcelona (2019). Her work has been exhibited in the following spaces: the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, The New York Times, CosmoCaixa, Galería Il·lacions, By Invitation of the Equestrian Circuit, the Contemporary Art Space of Uruguay, Apoc London, Madrid Design Festival, Mira Festival, Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona Design Festival, Metal Magazine, Art Connect, among others.
Recognitions include: Barcelona Crea: Practicable Research and Experimentation Grant from Hangar (with Manglar Collective), the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Residency Programme, Support for Digital and Electronic Art from MEC Uruguay, and the Performing Arts Fellowship from Fonds Darstellende Künste (with Akyute Collective).
Since 2019, she has led Akyute, an artistic duo exploring ecological sensitivity through interactive installations and performances. From this dialogue, she created Rain and Rivers in 2023, a practice based on research into glassblowing, water, and wearables. In 2023, she co-founded Manglar, a transdisciplinary collective of Latin American artists and researchers brought together at Hangar’s WetLab. This experimental project proposes situated sciences that de-universalize the scientific gesture, integrating the body as both site and perspective.
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UK / Uruguay, in Barcelona, Spain
Magdalena Hart practices porosity as a methodology that allows her to inhabit decomposition and sustain sensitivity within contexts of accelerated change and deep material wear. Her work unfolds through sensitive devices and interactive installations that expand her modes of perception beyond dominant forms of knowledge production.
Materially, her sculptural language is built from blown glass and the accumulation of residual elements, intertwined with multispecies alliances and low-tech practices. She approaches her research as a composting process, understanding her archive as a territory that ferments, decomposes, and reorganizes into new forms of intimacy. From this dialogue she learns from the gentleness of deterioration, an intelligence that inhabits things as they open toward their own undoing.
She is currently a resident of the following spaces: Hangar (Barcelona), Tandem x Casa R.A.R.O (Barcelona), and Maker Sherpa at the Centre Cívic Convent Sant Agustí (Barcelona).
She holds a Master’s degree in Audiovisual Innovation and Interactive Environments from BAU, Barcelona (2019). Her work has been exhibited in the following spaces: the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, The New York Times, CosmoCaixa, Galería Il·lacions, By Invitation of the Equestrian Circuit, the Contemporary Art Space of Uruguay, Apoc London, Madrid Design Festival, Mira Festival, Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona Design Festival, Metal Magazine, Art Connect, among others.
Recognitions include: Barcelona Crea: Practicable Research and Experimentation Grant from Hangar (with Manglar Collective), the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Residency Programme, Support for Digital and Electronic Art from MEC Uruguay, and the Performing Arts Fellowship from Fonds Darstellende Künste (with Akyute Collective).
Since 2019, she has led Akyute, an artistic duo exploring ecological sensitivity through interactive installations and performances. From this dialogue, she created Rain and Rivers in 2023, a practice based on research into glassblowing, water, and wearables. In 2023, she co-founded Manglar, a transdisciplinary collective of Latin American artists and researchers brought together at Hangar’s WetLab. This experimental project proposes situated sciences that de-universalize the scientific gesture, integrating the body as both site and perspective.
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