Fuentesal Arenillas

Julia Fuentesal and Pablo M. Arenillas studied at the University of Fine Arts in Seville. They have lived and worked in London, Berlin and Madrid, where they currently reside. Their work explores the mischievous dimensions of artistic practice, with pieces that intersect autobiographical aspects with formal resources such as the double figure and repetition. In their work processes, wood has a privileged place, turning toward the trade as a reference. They have proposed everything between games with small pieces, to large panels, recovered beams, warm floors, sculptures or spaces, testing and finding stimulated forms for the gaze and the body likewise.

Fuentesal Arenillas_Early May

The process when designing a chair is more or less the same as that of clothing, provoking a sensation in the workshop that all these cut-outs (patterns), accumulated and reviewed with pencil, could easily be reassembled over and over again on different types of wood, composing other templates such as rocking chairs, small tables, shelves or even a city model. Each piece finishes in different ways and with different curvatures in the upper part of the backrest, forming moderately sensual structures upon which we rest and in which collections of fine lines and narrow gaps are articulated. There they are, hand made, covered with sawdust, plunged. Many of them made from magazine or publicity papers, revealing broken phrases and marks that guide the carving on the wood. In this series we talk about what happens before sculpture. A volume, produced via the very trade itself when performing it, where tools and materials come together, seized and settled just like the way a straw hat rests on our heads.

These editions were printed by Elena Alonso and Dan Benveniste.

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