Claire de Santa Coloma (*1983, Buenos Aires) studied ‘Direct Carving’ at the Ateliers Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris and Visual Arts Research at the Sorbonne. She won the EDP Foundation's New Artists Award in 2017. After many years of living abroad in Paris, Madrid, Lisbon and Sydney, the artist returned to Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2023 where she now lives and works.
Made from found wood or wood that was brought to her, Claire de Santa Coloma’s works interrogate the central themes of sculpture as well as the creative methods that form its foundations. She deliberately alludes to the vocabulary of 20th century abstract sculpture as a kind of archetype of the genre.
Wandering around the sculptures, set in dialogue by Santa Coloma in situ, evokes a sense of the familiar—a sensual, physical act of remembering that simultaneously connects us to human history and its close relationship with wood as a material.
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