The objects of clay are conceived to be touched, grabbed, felt. They talk about the artist's bodily experiences and needs. The artist is not a potter, but she found in clay a way to think out of her body, with her hands, in a more primal, grounding and earthly way.
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Artist statement
I am an artistic designer, a researcher and an educator. My practice and thought, indistinguishible from one another, are transdisciplinar —always in an urge to weave deeper meanings and find unlikely connections.
As a practicioner, I work with text, objects and spaces, always aiming for a sort of interaction. As a researcher and educator, I am interested in the intersection between design and contemporary art as a rich way to address pressing social and cultural issues. Ultimately, my aim is to create —conceptually and/or physically— spaces of encounter, places to experience and be together (what I call in Spanish, "convivencia").
Ambitions
In the next five years I hope to consolidate my practice and its different dimensions. At some point in the future, I would love to orientate my research towards a possible PHD, since education and research are fundamental in my work, but at the moment, I'm especially focused in building a healthier relationship with my time, my energy, my life and my work.
Learned during the studies
In the years I spent at the MAFA I leart to observe, to question, to articulate my thoughts, to think twice. I built a strong sense of awareness, towards myself and to the others. But especially and mostly, I left with a deeper understanding of what I don't know and a porous and open attitude towards surprising different ways of thinking, making and sharing.
List of publications / exhibitions / prices / concerts / shows etc.
[Exhibition] Refractions | Grad. show at Basis voor de Actuele Kunsten (BAK), Utrecht [NL] | VVAA
[Research paper] A.I.R.: From radical individuality to connected subjectivity | Temes de Disseny · Elisava research magazine | Barcelona [ES] | Co-authors: Elisa Cuesta, Pedro Arnanz and Victoria de la Torre
[Project article] Imagined Cre(AI)tures | “Freeport. Anatomías de una caja negra“ | Madrid [ES] | VVAA
[Exhibition] “In These Strange Times” | Science Gallery Dublin [IR] | Elisa Cuesta, Pedro Arnanz and Victoria de la Torre
[Residency] Artist in Retreat | Curated by Xenia Klein | Blekinge [SE] | VVAA
[Residency] Artist in Residency Program by Science Gallery Dublin & Accenture’s innovation centre The Dock | Dublin [IR] & Madrid [ES] | Elisa Cuesta, Pedro Arnanz and Victoria de la Torre
Anxious Bodies in the Anxious Culture. Anxiety, roots and the struggle to practice.
rootedness and uprootedness,
myself and my culture.
I depart from my physical body to
meet my social body,
that is the poetic way I decided to think about
the society I’m part of,
as daughter of the West.
All of this has constituted
the main challenge here:
to articulate a collection of thoughts, references,
emotions, intuitions and practices that
have been synapsing in my mind for a while
but that I have only now managed to set
in a more or less coherent narrative.
But isn’t that what artistic research is about, after all?
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A.I.R. From radical individuality to collective subjectivity.
A.I.R. is the outcome of the Art in Residency Program —hosted by the Science Gallery Dublin [IR] and Accenture’s Innovation Center The Dock [IR]— that turned out to be a residency in remoteness due to the pandemic.
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