2014 8 Cuestiones Espacialmente Extraordinarias. Tabacalera. Madrid
In the limitless exploration of sculpture, Fuster works freely, tied only to the inspiration that each chosen material suggests, and where the accidental, be it provoked or come by naturally, is also part of the creative endeavor. The starting point of her work is a review of materials that become question marks, transgressing their functionality in order to emerge as something poetic. The place where they are exhibited, the textures and colors of the materials used, are a crucial part of her creative process.
From Fuster’s hand emerge pieces that are an assembly of apparently unconnected elements that take on a new life as the artist joins them together in her experimentations, where beautiful dichotomies are created between the poetic and the brutal. Fuster enjoys breaking the resistance of the object’s normal use, applying heat until they melt, or wind until we no longer recognize them. It is a question of trying to tame them in order to see what they say, if they hold up or protest. The contrasts come about between hard and soft, transparent confronted with opaque, stable against unstable, heavy and light, rigid and malleable, static and mobile, distance and proximity, hot-cold, all of these and more, are some of artist’s paths of experimentation. So Fuster establishes the process of alteration as a method of work, from simple to elaborate, from small to large in scale, to transform the ordinary into extraordinary.
Sculptural spatial installations, with an always sober application of objectual elements, carefully chosen and subtly transformed, presented in the form of constructions where the artisanal, technological and experimental are reconciled ideally in the exhibit space, and very importantly, in accord with the place. Fuster thus challenges the dimensions of the material and its tri-dimensionality, making the viewer’s gaze work —and in this case, the path as well— in searching for the discourse of the piece.
Over the years, Fuster has experimented with folds, wrinkles, color and heat with different materials and media, and these are part of the infinite tests the artist subjects to the elements that interest her, be they from a store, a junkyard or an armoire. Fuster is as interested in iron as she is in cloth, and can learn something from all materials, insatiably experimenting with their limits between the rational and the intuitive.
Sopladores, 2014. Organza fabric, fans and welded metal structure, 12x3x2,5m.
