Patricia Dauder

Trained in Fine Arts at the Universitat de Barcelona and with stays in the Netherlands, New York and Prague, Patricia Dauder currently lives and works in Barcelona. Using various media (drawing, sculpture, textiles, film and photography) and a language close to Minimalism, Dauder experiments with form and matter as a reflection on the passage of time and the idea of space. Presence and absence, the whole and the fragment, the mass and the void, the residue and the footprint, are concepts that resonate throughout her production, without ever abandoning the idea of morphology and working with matter. Markedly procedural in nature, in her work the journey plays an important role, as does the culture of the sea and the idea of nature. The artist aims to return to more direct and essential ways of relating to the natural environment, reflected both in her travels and in her chromatic choices, in her physical and artisanal relationship with materials (paper, graphite, cardboard, canvas, plaster, wood, air, earth). Dauder creates and destroys, traces and erases, adds and removes, to the point of modelling refined and abstract-looking pieces that, in their ambiguity, end up projecting multiple associations and iconographies.