Conceived in situ, Surface is Patricia Dauder’s poetic elaboration of an image as a complex architecture, composed of layers of memory and meaning. The installation builds up a dialogue amongst several elements, carefully distributed in a space, which are commonly dark, flat, and that share a certain fragile appearance and a virtual lack of volume. Their spatial choreography enhances a conversation as they seem to face each other or to be connected by invisible lines. Even though these elements could be perceived as drawing and sculpture, they transcend their dimensionality and become mere surfaces. They all have resulted from the action of erasing, eroding or wasting a prior structure until obtaining a unique image-object. As the title evokes, they seem to have been deprived of content, as relegated to superficial layers or “skins”, but they retain  the scent of a space, an action, or an object. Recalling debris, at the same time they evoke the experience and materiality of ordinary objects and not so ordinary spaces.

duality between introspection and observation that feed off one another.

Patricia Dauder (born 1973, Spain) studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Sant Jordi (Barcelona), and at Ateliers Arnhem (Arnhem) *4 She has been a resident artist at spaces and platforms such as Project Sonae//Serralves (Oporto), I.S.C.P. International Studio and Curatorial Program (New York) or Hangar (Barcelona), and last but not least, Meetfactory in Prague. She has received remarkable awards and recognitions, such as the DKV / MARCO Grant, CONCA Visual Arts Grant, Plastic Arts International Botín Foundation Grant and the Caja Madrid Generation Prize, among others.