Practice

My practice explores and documents the material composition and narrative of the environments we inhabit. The research centres on where industrial processes and life converge: how architecture and urbanism consolidate the discourses that shape everyday living.

Sculpture is the usual vehicle for that research. I start from industrial materials — sometimes building materials, sometimes ordinary consumables — which, in dialogue with natural or barely manufactured materials, let me raise questions about architecture, urbanism, industry and life.

The work is organised around the study of systems that hold things up, on the premise that every form depends on a prior structure defining the conditions under which something can remain standing. Through sculpture I investigate the relationship between material, structure and space, activating architecture as part of the support system.

The aim is to examine how the structures we develop on, as a society and as individuals, are materialised. How is life sustained in densely populated territories? What architectural or social structures follow from that concentration of people? The answers always involve architecture, industry, urbanism and life.

The practice runs in direct continuity with my professional work building support devices for historical objects: structures made to hold and present a piece without altering its material integrity. Technique is posed here as a device of care, able to hold without harming.

Background

Studied architecture at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and sculpture at Escola Massana, Barcelona. Einaidea workshop – Emboscada 9# with Alberto Peral.

Projects and residencies at TNT – Terrassa Noves Tendències, Nau Ivanow, El Graner, Festival Sismògraf (Olot) and L'Estruch (Sabadell). Three years as production assistant in Samuel Salcedo's studio, with occasional collaborations with Amparo Sard.

First prize in photography and architecture, Col·legi d'Aparelladors i Arquitectes Tècnics de Mallorca. First prize for the design of the UFEC medal.