FURTHER AHEAD
Matter is more than a passive surface onto which meaning is projected. Objects can act, generate relations and participate in processes of transformation. Their significance lies not only in what they represent, but in what they do: in what their presence, material qualities and interaction with the body can make possible.
From this perspective, transformation is relational. It lives in the encounter between object and person. When worn, the artefact enters into a direct relationship with the body: it can alter how the body moves, feels and occupies space, while the body in turn activates and transforms the work. The boundaries between object and subject, inside and outside, begin to dissolve. The work becomes an extension of the body, and the body becomes part of the work.
You become one with the piece, and materialisation is part of this process. Material becomes experience, allowing what cannot always be contained or understood through thought alone to be physically experienced. The intangible acquires presence.
The artefact, then, does more than represent an idea or mediate between already separate realms. It can participate in creating the relationship itself. Through its presence, its movement and its physical, aesthetic and sensory qualities, it can generate new states, responses and possibilities. The encounter becomes both communicative and creative, bringing forth something new through this relationship.
In this sense, the artefact becomes a threshold where the human and the transcendent can enter into relation. It creates the conditions for encounters with what lies beyond the immediately visible. And so, the work stands as a material presence to inhabit, engage with and experience.
Through exchanges with performers, musicians and other artists, each work is activated as a shared field, where presence, interaction and embodiment complete the piece.
In collaboration with Urko Suaya, 2019
In collaboration with Urko Suaya, 2019
In collaboration with Urko Suaya, 2019
In collaboration with Constanza Pulit & Arwy, 2025.
In collaboration with Fausto Elizalde, 2024.
In collaboration with Cabinet Oseo & Urko Suaya, 2023
In collaboration with Drift & Merlina Famularo
In collaboration with Arwy & Merlina Famularo.
In collaboration with Hannah & Barbi Arcuschin