4 February 2025 – 31 July 2025
Covadonga Casado González was born in Oviedo in 1994. In 2012 she completed a BA of Fine Arts at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. In 2015, she got an Erasmus scholarship to study at the Academy of Art, Architecture and Design in Prague, where she specialized in sculpture.
A year later, she was selected for the Master of Art and Glass Science with the VICARTE Research Group (collaboration between NOVA University of Art and Technology and the University of Fine Arts of Lisbon). For three years, she dedicated herself intensively to the study of glass, immersed in the complexity and particularity of the material. In 2021, she continued her training with the cycle of Engraving and Printing Techniques at the School of Art of Oviedo.
Up until now, Covadonga has been selected in artistic promotion programs such as Matrioska (Ourense, 2017) and the Factoría Cultural de Avilés (2021). She has also starred in exhibitions such as A Grande Piada Final (Lisbon, 2020), Fazendo as Malas (Lisbon, 2020) and Violencia Neuronal (Avilés, 2022).
Project in residence
Throughout her career, the artist has explored various disciplines, but over time she has found in sculpture a privileged space to embrace experimentation, understood as a form of knowledge in itself. The diversity of materials and the way in which they interact with each other have revealing results, since the essential functioning of these things is manifested in their relationships.
Experience and learning are presented as deeply interconnected processes. In this sense, empiricism constitutes a fundamental pillar of her practice, as it offers tools to understand and articulate her own vision of the environment.
On the other hand, the ideas of lateral thinking formulated by Edward de Bono play a crucial role in her work. Rather than following rigid structures, she prioritizes flexible approaches that allow her to construct meanings from direct experience.
The project presented here consists of a practical investigation to achieve the controlled proliferation of vegetation on the surface of fired sculptures. This approach seeks to imitate, once again, the processes of nature.
To this end, a series of guidelines are proposed that will determine which materials, under which conditions, present properties that may be of interest. Finally, they will be kept under the ideal light and humidity conditions to favor the proliferation of organisms.
The final objective is to explore the limits between the natural and the constructed, juxtaposing the durability of fired ceramics with the fragility and temporality of the living organisms that inhabit them: a project with no guarantee of success in which uncertainty becomes inevitable.