ABOUT ANA ROD
Ana Rod, 1982, La Coruña.
She resides in Madrid, where she has her studio.
Graduated in Fashion Design from IED Madrid. She has developed her professional career as a designer, creative, and artistic director. Since 2020, she has focused her career on the artistic field, emerging as a contemporary ceramic sculptor.
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS:
Upcoming: "Ornamentos de ficción" at GALERIA SHIRAS during ABIERTO VALENCIA 2023.
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"Antes de" Solo Show at CORNER GALLERY, Madrid, April 2023. Curated by Oscar Manrique.
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"Sintropía" Solo Show at DESEO GALLERY, Barcelona, March 2020.
SOME COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS:
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"Edition #1" Collective Exhibition at BOA LAB GALLERY, Lisbon, November 2020.
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"Dreams & Nightmares" Collective Exhibition at POCKO GALLERY, London, October 2020.
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"Objeto Objeto" Collective Exhibition at IKB 191, Madrid, December 2019.
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"Piezas Escogidas" Collective Exhibition in A Coruña, November 2019.
ART FAIRS:
"MARTE" Contemporary Art Fair of Castellón 2023 with Ceramic Res.
"MARTE" Contemporary Art Fair of Castellón 2022 with Espacio Nuca. Solo Show.
"MARTE" Contemporary Art Fair of Castellón 2020 at "Marte Cerámico" curated by the fair's management.
ARTISTIC RESIDENCIES:
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"Ceramic Res" organized by Conet Art, October-December 2022.
TALKS:
Individual presentation in the lecture series called "Lecciones de Anatomía" at MADRID DESIGN FESTIVAL 2022.
Ana Rod creates suggestive ceramic biomorphic sculptures, with constant echoes and allusions to the natural world and the behavior of matter, from the observation of macroscopic and microscopic scales indistinctly. Both in her smaller format pieces and in her installations, she manages to transition between the figurative and the abstract, between the disturbing and the familiar. The body-mind connection, that is, sensoriality-intellect, for a long time disdained in the Western world, is vindicated in her work. Through her organically shaped sculptures, Ana Rod aspires to connect her work with a sense of contemplative expression and interaction with the natural world, understood as a complex and deeply connected whole.
<< My work alludes to a state prior to the concretion of matter, a space where the possibilities are infinite and where nature reinvents itself.
At first glance, the sensory appeals to us to awaken springs of the collective imagination, small triggers that unleash stimuli from the subconscious and generate a resonance.
On a deeper layer, by fusing references to organic elements, modular structures and concepts such as entropy or potentiality, I reflect on the randomness and chance of our own existence, seeking a connection with primordial nature, the quantum universe and the duality of matter.>>
