Beyond their material and digital form,
the works operate as ritual objects.

Relics of the New Threshold

I do not create objects to be possessed.
I create works to be encountered, received and carried through time.

My practice begins with matter.

With its weight, its resistance, its imperfections and its capacity to transform. Resin, wood, pigments, gold, mineral elements and traces of process are not simply materials: they are part of the work’s existence.

But an artwork does not necessarily end when its physical form is complete.

I am interested in what happens afterwards.

What remains when a work leaves the studio.
What changes when it enters another space.
What it accumulates through time, movement and transformation.
What can be preserved, and what must remain inaccessible.

My work explores the threshold between matter and trace, presence and representation, permanence and transformation, memory and disappearance.

Technology enters this territory without replacing the physical object.

Digital counterparts, blockchain and evolving forms of digital memory allow me to explore another dimension of the artwork: not as a substitute for matter, but as a trace capable of accompanying it through time.

The physical work remains unique.

Its material existence cannot be downloaded, replicated or reduced to data.

For this reason, I do not understand acquisition simply as ownership.

A work is received.
A work is entrusted.
A work enters into custody.

The person who receives it becomes part of its trajectory: one presence within a history that began before them and may continue beyond them.

Some aspects of that encounter can be documented.
Others belong only to the person who experiences them.

Not everything needs to be revealed.
Not everything needs to be recorded.

There is value in what remains private, inaccessible or unseen.

My work exists within that tension.

Between the physical and the digital.
Between what remains and what changes.
Between what can be transmitted and what can only be experienced.

Received, not acquired.
Entrusted, not owned.

I am interested in the moment when an artwork stops being only something we look at and begins to become something that passes through us, accumulates memory and continues beyond us.

Reina Azabache