Methodology: Allow proximity to rearrange matter (A Practice of Porosity, Hangar)
A Practice of Porosity is a living research project that holds space for what is left behind.
There is a gentleness in decay, an intelligence that inhabits things as they open towards their own undoing.
2026: Residency Hangar Barcelona, ES
2026: Art Nou, Tandem x Casa RARO, Barcelona, ES
2026:Convent Sant Augusti, Barcelona, ES
The work presents a series of sculptural objects that accumulate gestures of waste, failure, and fragility.
The methodological investigation, which I call A Practice of Porosity, emerges from composting as a process of artistic creation, grounded in the understanding that for something to decompose, it must be porous. Through alliances with people, materials, and tools in contexts of proximity, the practice proposes inhabiting that which deteriorates, allowing remnants, affects, and relationships to ferment and reorganize into new forms of intimacy.
2026: Residency Hangar Barcelona, ES
2026: Art Nou, Tandem x Casa RARO, Barcelona, ES
2026:Convent Sant Augusti, Barcelona, ES
The work presents a series of sculptural objects that accumulate gestures of waste, failure, and fragility.
The methodological investigation, which I call A Practice of Porosity, emerges from composting as a process of artistic creation, grounded in the understanding that for something to decompose, it must be porous. Through alliances with people, materials, and tools in contexts of proximity, the practice proposes inhabiting that which deteriorates, allowing remnants, affects, and relationships to ferment and reorganize into new forms of intimacy.
As part of this research, during a three-month residency at Hangar, I commuted the same route every day, observing sites where waste accumulates and documenting both the materials that circulate and those that persist. What began as a poetic gesture within my practice gradually revealed broader logics of extraction, excess, and disposal, processes mediated by marginalized and often invisible forms of labor.
During this period, I shared a staircase with a space occupied by recyclers, who daily dismantle found objects under precarious conditions: broken windows, no electricity, no running water, and so on. The proximity between their gestures and my own practice generated a tension around the material conditions and privileges from which my work operates. Over time, that tension evolved into forms of exchange and reciprocity: the circulation of tools, materials, and care. Some of the recyclers began setting aside fragments for me, while I gathered leftover metals from my commutes and from other Hangar residents to contribute to their recycling processes.
These relationships became an active part of my methodology of porosity, cultivating more situated and attentive ways of making. The sculptures presented in the various exhibitions were created from the materials accumulated through these exchanges.
During this period, I shared a staircase with a space occupied by recyclers, who daily dismantle found objects under precarious conditions: broken windows, no electricity, no running water, and so on. The proximity between their gestures and my own practice generated a tension around the material conditions and privileges from which my work operates. Over time, that tension evolved into forms of exchange and reciprocity: the circulation of tools, materials, and care. Some of the recyclers began setting aside fragments for me, while I gathered leftover metals from my commutes and from other Hangar residents to contribute to their recycling processes.
These relationships became an active part of my methodology of porosity, cultivating more situated and attentive ways of making. The sculptures presented in the various exhibitions were created from the materials accumulated through these exchanges.