For Arco 2023 we propose a duo presentation with artists Eva Fàbregas and Josep Maynou. The booth aims to generate a dialogue between two practices that engage with the ideas of play and transformation.

Working with soft and malleable synthetic materials and manufacturing processes, Eva Fàbregas sculptures embrace the possibility of tactile engagement, physical intimacy, affective bonding, tenderness and various forms of somatic experimentation with and through objects. Liberated from the constraints of biology, sexual desire and affect are allowed to flow in all directions, blurring the distinction between organic and inorganic matter.

Her works are made of materials such as translucent silicone and latex, materials typical of prosthetic medicine and toys and sexual technologies. Playing with its folds and wrinkles, the resulting shapes can be touched and handled, thus expanding their purely formal character and offering physical intimacy and an emotional bond with these new creatures.

Josep Maynou multidisciplinary approach is both performative and object based. It comes together as a form of contemporary storytelling, a fictional take on everyday life in the form of humorous ideas that expand onto his objects.

The sculptures he makes are at once illustrations of these ideas, as much as they are props and stages where the narrative takes place. Maynou uses common domestic materials and practical tools that are often discarded or hidden to create anthropomorphous utensils. His projects are scenarios for action that allow both functionality and absurdity at the same time.

With the support of: Generalitat de Catalunya, ICEC and Ministerio de Cultura, Plan de recuperación, transformación i resiliencia