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Naty Lopez-Holguin

Portsmouth
Using materials to convey points of human experience; presenting the low value, everyday in a transformed state, to simultaneously instigate associations and interpretations.
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Naty Lopez-Holguin is a Spanish-born artist based in Portsmouth, whose practice focuses on material transformation, using the everyday to convey points of human experience. 

For the last 12 years, she has been mainly working with tumble-dryer fluff – a commonly discarded material full of associations. On the one hand, it did once belong to a garment which clothed us, gave us warmth and protection from exposure. On the other hand, it is now no more than a nuisance blocking the filter …

Through labour-intensive processes and the use of found colour in the existing fluff, the layering takes the artis through a meditative process of discovery, a continuous interplay between intention and outcome, and always changing one.

The forms are often influenced by food packaging; the fluff is restricted within, giving a ‘manufactured’ feel as a metaphor for social constraints.

 

Untitled

Revery

Red claw

Indentation

Diverted traffic

Sounds of the Past

Proposition space

Low frequency

Funnelling

Empty holes

Furrows

Relational deviations

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