C. 3-1, 2024

Chamotte stoneware and glaze

Throughout her career, artist Covadonga Casado has explored various disciplines. However, for some time now, she has found sculpture to be a privileged space for embracing experimentation, understood as a form of knowledge in itself. In this regard, the diversity of sculptural materials and the way they interact with each other are a constant source of revelation for the artist, making each process a true journey to reason.

The collection on display here presents one of her characteristic stoneware heads, from which, on this occasion, hands and attributes emerge. All of these elements possess a great evocative power which, with their silent presence, seem to invoke an ancestral time.

A woman’s head with braided hair and marked features is accompanied by two expressive hands, which in turn carry weapons. The lack of a connecting body seems, however, to strengthen and amplify each of the parts, drawing our attention directly to the essence: the identification of the face and its elemental power, as well as the purity of the material.

The static nature of the ensemble also lends an atavistic forcefulness that seems to recall those prehistoric idols, perhaps forest deities, possessing an almost magical energy.

Artist: Covadonga Casado

Artwork included in the exhibition: De rerum natura. On the nature of things