Sandra Lapage

Lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil

Artist statement

I work with discarded materials—primarily aluminum packaging, plastics and other industrial remnants—collected through everyday encounters and community donations. Through slow, repetitive acts of cleaning, cutting, weaving and assembling, these fragments become porous sculptural environments where matter retains the memory of its previous lives while opening onto new forms of relation. Working across sculpture, installation, wearable objects and photo-performance, I understand making as a sustained practice of attention. Rather than imposing predetermined compositions, I work intuitively, allowing materials to guide the emergence of hybrid forms that oscillate between the human, vegetal, animal and mineral. Repetition becomes both methodology and way of thinking, creating space for uncertainty, transformation and the unexpected. My installations inhabit the threshold between drawing, sculpture and architecture. Suspended, permeable and continually reshaped by light, shadow and movement, they invite viewers to experience form as something relational rather than fixed. I am interested in the tensions between structure and apparition, weight and suspension, permanence and metamorphosis, where absence becomes as active as presence. Rather than treating discarded matter as something to redeem, I approach it as a carrier of histories, gestures and latent possibilities. By slowing the rhythms of making and looking, my work proposes attention itself as an ecological practice—one...

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