Stella Rahola Matutes values materiality as a substance that is always subject to change, whether it be from the involvement of and manipulation by human and non-human beings, interaction with its environment or the dynamic life of its chemical reactions. This issue entails politically considering manufacturing processes and their associated power relations, in other words, workers, their tools and the production spaces.
The exhibition explores these ideas by taking as an example the process involved in the transformation of a material such as glass and, to begin with, observing how it is worked on in a craft workshop. Different moments during the blowing of...
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