Methodology:
Follow the same route every day, observe the places where waste accumulates, observe what remains, what circulates.
( A Practice of Porosity, Hangar)
( 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: Maker Sherpa, Convent de Sant Augustí, Barcelona, ES
The work presents a series of sculptural objects that accumulate gestures of waste, failure, and fragility.
This series of sculptural objects emerges from a daily practice of walking, collecting, and attending to what persists. During my residency at Hangar, I followed the same route each day, gathering discarded materials encountered along the commute. An exercise in seeing what is left behind, too broken, too useless or too little economic value that become permanent. Through repetition, the act of collecting became a method for observing patterns of circulation, abandonment, and permanence within the urban landscape.
2026: Residency Hangar Barcelona, ES
2026: Maker Sherpa, Convent de Sant Augustí, Barcelona, ES
The work presents a series of sculptural objects that accumulate gestures of waste, failure, and fragility.
This series of sculptural objects emerges from a daily practice of walking, collecting, and attending to what persists. During my residency at Hangar, I followed the same route each day, gathering discarded materials encountered along the commute. An exercise in seeing what is left behind, too broken, too useless or too little economic value that become permanent. Through repetition, the act of collecting became a method for observing patterns of circulation, abandonment, and permanence within the urban landscape.
Central to the investigation is the idea of porosity as both a material condition and an artistic methodology. The collected fragments were accumulated, rearranged, and allowed to "ferment" through time, conversation, and proximity. By bringing together found residues with blown glass, the sculptures explore tensions between fragility and resilience, rigidity and adaptation, creating unlikely alliances between materials not originally designed to coexist.
As the research unfolded, encounters with informal recyclers working nearby complicated the romantic notion of scavenging and revealed the social and economic realities embedded within systems of waste. These relationships evolved into exchanges of materials, tools, and care, becoming an active part of the work's methodology. The resulting sculptures are not only assemblages of found matter, but traces of reciprocal relationships, accumulated gestures, and forms of knowledge that emerge through sustained attention to what is discarded, overlooked, and left behind.