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Get matched →Helena Laguna Bastante is a featured artist known for her work presented at Art Nou, where she explored the body as a space of relationship and transformation. She holds a Fine Arts degree from the University of Barcelona, a postgraduate degree in curatorship from EINA, and a Master's in Artistic Research and Production from the University of Barcelona. She is currently a professor at the University of Barcelona, pursuing a doctorate in Advanced Studies in Artistic Production, and is a resident at Hangar. Her work has been exhibited at various institutions including Manifesta 15, La Panera de Lleida, Fundació Joan Miró, La Capella, Homesession, Fundació Brossa, MACBA, Centre d’Arts Santa Mònica, and the Cultural Center of Spain in Buenos Aires. She has also completed residencies at MORPHO (Antwerp), Can Felipa Arts Visuals, and L’Estruch, and has received scholarships from several foundations.
Helena Laguna's artistic attention began early, influenced by her family's manual work. She describes her practice as articulated by a sustained interest in writing, its limits, and the potential of the body and gesture as spaces of relationship, attention, and encounter. She is interested in working in different spaces and observing how her practice changes according to the architecture it inhabits, thinking with posture and gestures. Her work explores different forms of relationship that emerge by approaching a place through words and materials.
Her first research project, 'Hacer Migas. Un ensayo sobre memoria, pérdida y lenguaje,' addressed illiteracy as a space of possibility for alternative forms of learning and memory, drawing from her grandmother's case and dance notation. Subsequently, her practice evolved towards a more experimental approach, using dance improvisation as a methodology for sculptural practice. This led to the project 'Improvisación es una palabra para algo que no puede mantener un nombre,' which materialized in an individual exhibition at Can Felipa. She is currently finishing a residency in Antwerp and beginning a PhD, researching the gesture of fumbling as a methodology for working with and from space, where body and word are central tools for interaction with the external world.
While engraving was her initial medium, her creations do not predominantly favor one technique over others. She is progressively more interested in working with the body and is open to the accidental outcomes of material manipulation.
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