Natalia Domínguez IN RESiDENCE at the School Verdaguer

The artistic practice of Natalia Domínguez arises from the romanticism in the attempt to get closer and possess the other as an unknown entity, but also from the estrangement of the common. Conscientiously analysing an element that we see and recognise normally makes it exceptional, as does repeating our name an indefinite number of times puts us in a position of estrangement with our identity and the definitions we use to name and define ourselves. From that semantic saturation is where our work emerges: from the need to reconstruct meanings, distort them and rethink them. Because, if language is a social pact, it is malleable, changeable and, consequently, chameleonic.

Based on these concepts and methods, Natalia Domínguez currently works from abstraction and codification of two elements of architectural space: decorative finishes - as elements without a constructive function, but which provide the building they crown with historic, conceptual and political idiosyncrasies, and the resonance of the space to question its past, present and possible futures.

For all this, the creation process wants to ask how to occupy spaces in a “non-physical” way, what is the resonance of the objects, how to talk to things and what spaces and resonances go over our head and under our feet.