PATRICIA DAUDER (Barcelona, 1973)

Study and experimentation of the shape, material and structure comprise the means through which Patricia Dauder perceives, interprets and projects her sensations on the ephemeral and the temporary: changes that occur in the environment, fleeting phenomena or vague perceptions and sensations in her mind. The final morphologies that appear in various formats –drawings, films, textiles, objects or photographs– are the result of long working processes in which a dialogue is established between the observation of the world, abstraction of perceptions and material manipulation. The presence and absence, the whole and fragment, the mass and vacuum, waste and traces in nature and artificial elements are concepts that resonate in the fragile forms that arise after successive processes of making, remaking, adding and subtracting.

She lives and works in Barcelona. She studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Barcelona and at the Ateliers Arnhem in the Netherlands. Among her recent exhibitions are Surface. Introducing Patricia Dauder, National Gallery of Prague, Czech Republic, 2018; XIV Biennial of Cuenca. Estructuras Vivientes, Cuenca, Ecuador, 2018; Terra Incognita, Contemporary Arts Centre, Sâo Miguel, Azores, Portugal (2017); Recinto, MARCO, Vigo, Spain (2015); Villa Toronto, Toronto, Canada (2015); The Second Image, Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal (2012); 1979: Un monument a instants radicals, La Virreina, Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona (2011); Test Transmission, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand (2011); Orbital, Suñol Foundation, Barcelona, Spain (2009); Art Statements/Art Basel, Basel Switzerland (2009).