Nathalie Fuica Sánchez

In my sculpture-based practice, I am currently working with textile projects that emerge from an expanded understanding of painting. I sew and upholster canvas so that the stitches form soft reliefs or tapestries in abstract, concrete, and decorative motifs, before painting them with acrylics. The motifs visualize themes such as vulnerability, transformation, and suffering, but also home, belonging, and euphoria. The objects are then incorporated into installations, forming their own symbol-laden universes that reflect on the life-sustaining significance of care.

Daniel Peder Askeland and I have recently established ourselves as the duo “Aske og Fuica,” a collaboration grounded in a shared commitment to the ancient and oceanic medium of painting. For twenty years, we have each explored pigment, surface, light, and the history of painting in order to reproduce both the fleeting and the moving, as well as that which carries weight and substance. The duo functions as a painterly circuit, where dialogue and mutual support create a space for developing risk-filled ideas and carrying them forward, together and individually.