Ana Santos

The work of Ana Santos develops itself from a daily practice of meeting and accumulation of materials and objects.

Each object, each material, has in itself the key of its solution: is the exercise of the practice that allows to test, to choose, to change, to re-change, to reject, until finally meet the solution.

The making of is constituted through the exercise and the studio practice, and operates from the relation with the materials.

The thinking is pragmatic, that is, it seeks to understand the material’s intrinsic qualities and how they are solved in the artistic object.

First, there is the material and then the solution.

The materials do not have a fixed provenance; they may come from the street (found objects) or from construction materials shops.

The choice of the material is based on its physical behaviour, and on the possibilities of what it can or cannot do.

The speculative thinking questions the intentions, motivations and decisions that orientate the work. The operative thinking builds the relationship with materials. Objects work not as things but as signals. Objects are evocations of the shape: they are signals of the thinking about the material.

There is a fast operation wanting to make clear the gesture that produces it.

Submitted by Quadrado Azul