Sculptural work, Berlin 2026

The work developed in the stone workshop at the Universität der Künste (UdK), under the guidance of Axel Haagen, has fostered a deeper engagement with sculptural thinking and a direct understanding of materials and tools through hands-on practice with oolitic limestone, sandstone, and granite. Within this context, a horse bust has been sculpted through an intuitive process, allowing the form to gradually emerge from the block by following the inherent tensions, veins, and resistances of the stone.

The resulting sculpture seeks to approach an almost rupestrian sensibility, establishing a relationship of attentive listening with the material and conceiving the stone as a kind of transmitting membrane.

The process does not end with the sculptural form. During the work, the dust and fragments produced are collected, selected, and ground into a fine powder that is later used as pigment for painting. In this way, sculpture and painting are articulated within a single material cycle, where residue is transformed into raw material and the stone continues its existence on another surface.