20. El Aire Permite Abrir Espacio
“El Aire Permite Abrir Espacio” (translation from English to Spanish: “Air Opens Space”) is the title given to an installation format within the series “Grounded” - click here to read collection concept.
The series explores the metaphors, analogies, and perceptions that connect us to the elements—air, fire, earth, and water—both within and around, as how can we imagine a future limited by a lack of vocabulary?
The piece consists in 6 motorized iron sculptures, created in collaboration with metallurgist, Samuel H. Ramirez. The piecereads as follows:
this series embodies a process taken over the past five-years, where my practice has continually challenged our relationships within the ecosystems we belong to. navigating a day-to-day whilst living within unsustainably dominated systems amid a climate emergency, I cuestion the consequences of this disembodiment and question how we can integrate 'nature' into the 'digital age', starting with ourselves and the systems within.
The series explores the metaphors, analogies, and perceptions that connect us to the elements—air, fire, earth, and water—both within and around, as how can we imagine a future limited by a lack of vocabulary?
The piece consists in 6 motorized iron sculptures, created in collaboration with metallurgist, Samuel H. Ramirez. The piecereads as follows:
this series embodies a process taken over the past five-years, where my practice has continually challenged our relationships within the ecosystems we belong to. navigating a day-to-day whilst living within unsustainably dominated systems amid a climate emergency, I cuestion the consequences of this disembodiment and question how we can integrate 'nature' into the 'digital age', starting with ourselves and the systems within.
[el aire permite abrir espacio] reads as follows: the air, the wind, the feather, the dust, perception, transformation. noise drifts, the wind stirs thoughts. its movement is never static. each system interacts with another; nothing exists or survives alone. there is a continuous cycleof time and sequence, and every effect has its cause. as the air flows, spaces open, propelling currents, waves, and flames. It buries seeds with its strength, ignites fires, stirs storms. resilience. balance and tranquility—the feather dances, drifting to reveal new directions, where shapes and hues, patterns emerge. air's exhale opens space, whilst stagnation obstructs movement.
This investigation was initiated within the Humboldt Residency Programme 2023: Our Precious Resources, Berlin, and further explored within the Humedal Wetlab Residency Programme at Hangar, Barcelona.
This investigation was initiated within the Humboldt Residency Programme 2023: Our Precious Resources, Berlin, and further explored within the Humedal Wetlab Residency Programme at Hangar, Barcelona.
19. Grounded
Grounded is the title representing a collection of artworks which embodies a
process taken forward over the past five
years, during which my artistic practice
has continually challenged our perception of living ecosystems, questioning
through various formats how we can integrate “nature” into the digital age, reconnecting to the landscapes we belong
to.
The concept began through exploring the idea of researching both lost and yet-to-be-created metaphors and analogies to navigate our surroundings, expanding our perception and forms of expression. As how can you imagine a future limited by a lack of vocabulary?
Presently, I am translating these concepts into their tangible form, creating a collection of objects to incorporate these metaphors into my day-to-day life. The curation of these metaphors are inspired by the deep understanding our ancestors held of the relationship and dependence between ourselves and the primary elements: earth, air, fire, water.
The concept began through exploring the idea of researching both lost and yet-to-be-created metaphors and analogies to navigate our surroundings, expanding our perception and forms of expression. As how can you imagine a future limited by a lack of vocabulary?
Presently, I am translating these concepts into their tangible form, creating a collection of objects to incorporate these metaphors into my day-to-day life. The curation of these metaphors are inspired by the deep understanding our ancestors held of the relationship and dependence between ourselves and the primary elements: earth, air, fire, water.
Simultaneously, this is knowledge I bring
into my own practice and rituals, both at
home and in my artwork, where I attempt
to ensure the equilibrium of the elements
within and around myself. This is reflec
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ted in he form, function, materiality, and
interactions of each piece.
This is an investigation iniciated within the Humboldt Residency Programme 2023: Our Precious Resources, Berlin.
Followed by a further investigation within the Humedal Wetlab Residency Programme, at Hangar, Barcelona.
Series:
i. Espiral, glass sculpture designed to orientate the growth of the roots of the plant.
ii. Flotar, speculative drinking glass which forces you to slow down.
iii. El Aire Permite Abrir Espacio, iron support, with motorized
Today my concerns in relation to the climate crisis, lie between the mechanisms
of dissociation and desembodimient,
and the consecuences they have created
when trying to reconnect to “nature”.
This is an investigation iniciated within the Humboldt Residency Programme 2023: Our Precious Resources, Berlin.
Followed by a further investigation within the Humedal Wetlab Residency Programme, at Hangar, Barcelona.
Series:
i. Espiral, glass sculpture designed to orientate the growth of the roots of the plant.
ii. Flotar, speculative drinking glass which forces you to slow down.
iii. El Aire Permite Abrir Espacio, iron support, with motorized
disembodied petals.
iv. Hasta el Fuego Mismo Necesita Respirar, stainless steel corner shelf.
v. Encuentros Húmedos, WIP
i. To Be a Pebble in a Stream, WIP
iv. Hasta el Fuego Mismo Necesita Respirar, stainless steel corner shelf.
v. Encuentros Húmedos, WIP
i. To Be a Pebble in a Stream, WIP
18. What has the landscape witnessed?
The following concept is the background I have been elaborating throughout the Humboldt Residency Programme 2023: Our Precious Resources, Pathways to a Secure and Sustainable Future, in cooperation with the Climate Change Center Berlin-Brandenburg and the Cultural Foundation Schloss Wiepersdorf.
Read here.
Locations:
2023: Humboldt Residency Programme, Berlin, GE
2023: Humedal Wetlab, Barcelona ES
The commodity culture embraced by the global north, which others aspire to emulate, is underpinned by unsustainable resource extraction, primarily from distant locations in the global South. Our consumer patterns and the the convenient availability of these goods conceal the underlying environmental degradation, loss of biodiversity, and inherent inequities, impacts that are far removed from producers and consumers, rendering these impacts out of immediate view—our residency project endeavors to illuminate these impacts through information, science communication, and art.
Read here.
Locations:
2023: Humboldt Residency Programme, Berlin, GE
2023: Humedal Wetlab, Barcelona ES
The commodity culture embraced by the global north, which others aspire to emulate, is underpinned by unsustainable resource extraction, primarily from distant locations in the global South. Our consumer patterns and the the convenient availability of these goods conceal the underlying environmental degradation, loss of biodiversity, and inherent inequities, impacts that are far removed from producers and consumers, rendering these impacts out of immediate view—our residency project endeavors to illuminate these impacts through information, science communication, and art.
This is an investigation iniciated within the Humboldt Residency Programme 2023: Our Precious Resources, Berlin.
Followed by a further investigation within the Humedal Wetlab Residency Programme, at Hangar, Barcelona.
Followed by a further investigation within the Humedal Wetlab Residency Programme, at Hangar, Barcelona.
17. Flotar
Flotar is a sculptural set of glasses, commissioned by Il.lacions Gallery as part of the exhibition “Una Habitación Propia”, a proposal in which the work of 10 influential female artists throughout the history of modern arquitechture is interpreted in present day. I was honored with the proposal of making homage to Lina Bo Bardi through a drinking glass.
Locations:
2023: Il.lacions Gallery, Barcelona, ES
“Lina talks about integrating transformation. She explores the way in which the human being is in constant change, and therefore, their needs and behaviors also change. Based on this idea, she comments, an artwork must always be left unfinished for this very reason. I like this idea. Being open to adapting to change, and integrating time and its rhythm within space.
In a context of climate emergency, in which my city, Montevideo, has been declared the first capital to run out of drinking water, behavior changes. There is a water rationing caused by the drought, we pray for rain and the gifts we bring from our travels are bottles of water. Water is worth more than gold, water is life. I think about how our needs and behaviors will change in the future, and how our relationship to water will change, leading to redefining the ergonomics of the tools we use daily, and in this specific case, the glass, as an object that sustains life. A luxury object and ice its specialty.
Lina Bo Bardi's work emphasizes routes, repetition, unevenness, and always alludes to floating. There is a feeling that defys the laws of gravity.
Ice marks a rhythm, and stretches time. My homage to the work of Lina Bo Bardi was thought of as a high-end cocktail experience, and is part of a collection of modular glasses, allowing the piece to become a sculptural object while not in use. It seeks to incorporate the concepts that define Lina's work, thus creating an unfinished piece that integrates the times, a future speculation in a present object.
The glass in its future version can hold the ice, allowing its melting and dripping to become protagonist. Transforming the taste of the drink as time goes by. It is an object that forces you to stop in the present to experiment.
Ice marks a rhythm, and stretches time. My homage to the work of Lina Bo Bardi was thought of as a high-end cocktail experience, and is part of a collection of modular glasses, allowing the piece to become a sculptural object while not in use. It seeks to incorporate the concepts that define Lina's work, thus creating an unfinished piece that integrates the times, a future speculation in a present object.
The glass in its future version can hold the ice, allowing its melting and dripping to become protagonist. Transforming the taste of the drink as time goes by. It is an object that forces you to stop in the present to experiment.
16. Paisaje II
Paisaje II is an installation that opens dialogue towards more-than-human intelligences, challenging our perception of living in “relation to” rather than “in domination of”.
Locations:
2022: Mira Festival
The work takes its origin from the development of an interactive space of a technological nature titled “Paisaje Sonoro”, in which the performer co-creates with the biodata visualization system controlled by the plants that inhabit the installation, creating a generative audiovisual soundscape in real-time.