Stella Rahola
Stella Rahola Matutes (1980, Barcelona,) studied architecture at the ETSAB (UPC) in Barcelona and has a master’s degree in Projects also from the ETSAB (2011,) and Fine Arts at Goldsmiths University in London (2019).
Her practice addresses the creation of places and spatial situational encounters, through installation and sculptural pieces that rescue disused crafts and techniques. Through complex, physically demanding and almost alchemical processes, she claims the crucial role of the hands and the body as capacities of knowledge. Subverting these practices to their limits, she points to a state of material transformation, reaching a point of uncomfortable fragility, accentuating the life cycle to dissipate the ontological binary of life and matter.
She has exhibited nationally and internationally, her latest and most notable exhibitions include: “Beautiful Failures” at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion (Barcelona, 2.021), “Teoría de la Alegría” at MACE (Ibiza, 2020), LA Contemporary Art Fair with the Union Pacific Gallery, London (Los Ángeles, 2019), “Politics of Translation” The Stone Gallery (London 2019), among many other spaces.
Babel, 2018-2019, Vidre borosilicat bufat i enmirallat amb nitrat de plata 180 x 225 x 20 cm
Babel, 2018-2019,Vidrio borosilicato soplado
y espejado con nitrato de plata 180 x 225 x 20 cm
Babel, 2018-2019, Borosilicate glass blown and mirrored with silver nitrate 180 x 225 x 20 cm