FRICTION
Sculpture, Installation
2024

This project explores friction as a core relationship between body and environment. Two suspended, boulder-like forms engage in physical interaction—pressing, shifting, and rubbing against one another. Their surfaces, marked by furrows, cracks, and coarse textures, evoke processes of erosion, pressure, and resistance. Friction here is not just a physical phenomenon but a relational principle—a continuous negotiation between forces, materials, and bodies.

The volcanic landscape of Cabo de Gata forms the project’s material and conceptual foundation. Shaped by extreme heat, time, and aridity, this terrain of deserts and solidified lava fields informs both the sculpture’s form and its underlying tension. The work translates these geological conditions into a suspended moment of movement and stillness, weight and suspension.
The installation positions sculpture as part of a dynamic system rather than an isolated object. Bodies, spaces, and materials remain in constant exchange—a field of proximity, resistance, and transformation.