Ani Cuenca

Lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil

Artist statement

Architecture was my first training. It taught me to think through the relationships between matter, structure, weight, and balance. In my artistic practice, this way of thinking shifts toward a field where stability is no longer a given condition but something that must be continuously constructed. Each work emerges from the reorganization of relationships between materials that retain their inherent properties while operating under different conditions. I am interested in working at this threshold, where a structure remains exactly what it is, yet no longer responds in the same way. Form arises from these negotiations; it is never their starting point. My works develop through elementary operations, bending, compressing, suspending, supporting, and repeating, that redistribute forces and make visible relationships that usually remain unseen. I am not interested in representing balance, tension, or resistance. Instead, I seek to construct situations in which these conditions remain active and can be experienced physically. For me, sculpture is not the construction of objects, but of conditions. It is a way of reorganizing matter without disrupting its identity, allowing it to reveal possibilities that had remained latent.

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