Solo Exhibition
Galería de Arte do Convento do Espíritu Santo
Câmara Municipal de Loulé, Portugal
December 2022 - January 2023
Photos: Mercedes Segade
Individual Exhibition
Museum of Natural History and Science - Lisbon
2021
Photo: Francisco Rivotti
Artwork commissioned by S12 Gallery for the group exhibition “Young & Loving”
Bergen
2019
This body of work represents a period of research and reflection on craft; its history, the impact of the industrial revolution on craft, craft as verb and concept, the Arts and Crafts movement, and contemporary craft as an artistic and philosophical tool to question society.
The work embodies the word “labour” as a physically demanding process of making, as well as the birth of an object and concept - both subjects of further material and immaterial transformation.
Photos: Jane Sverdrupsen
Research Project & Group Exhibition
Hallwyl Museum, Stockholm
2019
The Hallwyl Museum holds a collection of fifty-one Chinese and Korean bronze mirrors. In the catalogue “East Asian Small Bronzes” (“Östasiatiska Småbronser”) - archived as group XLIX - one can find a brief description of these mirrors. Yet, when it comes to meaning, one has to look for the evidence that the objects alone hold - for these mirrors are charged with spiritual connotations, hierarchy, history, and especially, the indication of a pioneer craftsmanship.
Through my work I question the way history is being preserved, and which information is captured for the future. I seek to acknowledge the powerful presence of what is hidden to the human eye, or in some cases, overlooked. If one were to admit that there is any tangible information inherent to these mirrors, it would be the evidence of the makers’ skills, the techniques used to elaborate them, and the material in itself that speaks about the territory they originally belonged to.
Eight of the collection’s mirrors (E1; E2; E3; E4; E5; E6; E7; E8) are accompanied in the catalogue by a cross-section drawing: a profile. Through this project consisting of three artworks, I embarked myself in a quest for meaning, diving into the negative space of these samplings, and exploring the Immaterial through a process of making. I worked with several techniques making reference to some of those used in ancient times in order to fabricate bronze mirrors.
My material exploration first focused on three main conceptual actions that would allow me to investigate the void surrounding these mirrors:
Revolution
Spin
Extrusion
Revolution - The Billiards Room
Catalogues, a print, blown glass
Variable Dimensions
Spin - The Porcelain Room
Meissen porcelain tea set box, bronze castings, opaline glass casting, velvet
520 x 550 x 460 mm
Extrusion - The Washing Room
Slumped and silver mirrored float glass
880 x 520 x 6mm
Photo: Ida Halling
2018 - 2021
“We are surrounded by parallel and overlooked realities.”
Video made for “Das Fernglas”
2016
Slumped and mirrored float glass, metal reel
30cm in diameter x 10cm
2016
Slumped float glass, hand-blown glass funnel, overhead projectors, sheer fabric, wire, borosilicate glass tubes
Variable Dimensions
Photo: David Pereira
2016
Hand-blown glass funnel, steel tube, strap, sound system
Variable Dimensions
Photo: David Pereira
Last photo: Pedro Palma (European Glass Context 2016)
Recordings: Kristin Von Jarmersted
2016
Flame-worked borosilicate glass, limestone slab, metal frame
95cm x 111cm x 35cm
Photo: David Pereira
2016
Flame-worked borosilicate glass, water, wire, light
5cm in diameter x 100cm
Photo: David Pereira
2016
Slumped and mirror float glass, metal frame
62cm in diameter
Photo: David Pereira
2016
Video
08:00 min.
Camera: Alejandro Bernal
“Photons travel for 8 minutes through space just to die in your eyes.” - Professor Fernando Pina
A video that invites the viewer to contemplate subtle light phenomena.
2015
Flame-worked borosilicate glass, plaster, sound
Variable Dimensions
Photo: Márcio Vilela
2014
600cm x 300cm x 150cm
Slumped float glass, wire, light
Solo Exhibition "Frecuencia Etérea", Library of the Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
Permanent collection of the Library of the Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Photo: David Pereira
THE MAKER - 2019
Process picture of the project Silent Stories of Interaction - Revolution
HETEROTOPÍA - Inicio, 2017
Text
Solo Exhibition "Space Morphology", Embassy of Guatemala in Sweden. Stockholm, 2017
STUDY OF GRAVITY - 2016
Glass, light
UNTITLED - 2017
Fabric, plaster, balloon, yarn
Variable Dimensions
Solo Exhibition "Space Morphology", Embassy of Guatemala in Sweden, Stockholm, 2017
MORFOLOGÍA DE LA GRAVEDAD
1. The interaction of light (energy) and matter, analogue to the interaction of the artist (energy) with space and materials.
2. The physical absence of things speaks about the silent presence of gravity.
2.5 The memory of the impact in allusion to the corporality of gravity.
MISSING A COUPLE … - 2014
In Latin America the expression “le faltan un par de huevos” refers to a person who lacks courage.
Glass, wax, plaster, clay, plastic egg container
Variable Dimensions
