The borders between artistic media have long been blown up and sculpture has become a fertile field for cultivation. We explore the work of 8 young artists who wisely shape their future
The boundaries between artistic media have long been blown up. The objects dialogue with the space, they are the scene of performances and raw material for videos that caress their surfaces. Sculpture has become a fertile field in which women stand out. At El Cultural we have highlighted eight essential young people who should not be lost track of. Underlying their works is a concern for the reality that surrounds them, for small stories. From thin sheets of wood to construction elements, iron, plaster, cement but also ceramics, glass, paper, textiles, hair and water. The everyday is political. We take a look at their most recent projects.
Lucía Bayón. Pulpa de papel
Lucía Bayón: ‘Stubborn’, 2020-2021
She is the youngest of the artists included in this selection, with a solid body of work and a long history. After spending time in Berlin and Rotterdam, he has been in Madrid for a few months, with his studio in a shared warehouse in Carabanchel, working on Stubborn, an installation of sculptural objects that is branching out into different presentations. We talk about Circuits and the Generations exhibition that opens today at La Casa Encendida, also about the tasty appetizer at the Travesía Cuatro gallery in the summer. Lucía Bayón (Madrid, 1994) takes as a starting point materials “that do not maintain a shape in a solid state.” This is vegetable pulp, paper and discarded clothing that is mixed with the help of an industrial machine (the Hollander) with pastes, plaster, cement, soil, vegetable resins and wax. “Water is an element present in all these processes – he points out – that ultimately evaporates.” The result takes, with the help of molds, the shape of containers, the same containers where the fabrics are washed or the materials that create these pieces are mixed.
“Language and objects fascinate me, they have traps, gaps where things happen, they are not neutral, they have a very important ideological charge. I am interested in reviewing how we construct and make use of both, exploring frictions between the repetition of a gesture, matter, function and form.” In addition to these exhibitions of young art, she is soon participating in the inaugural collectives of two new spaces in Madrid: Intersticio and Pradiauto, and is one of the Plastic Arts Scholarships of the Centro Botín. Don’t lose track of her.
