Thanks to gravity, a verticality in the body turns us into perpendicular lines to the ground. This condition is fundamental in Mar Ramón Soriano’s sculptures, influencing the placement and support of modules in space. At times, the modules are stacked as towers, exerting greater pressure on ones below. In other cases, an upper volume supports the others, generating physical tension. This tension leads her to work with specific materials, selected for their physical and poetic qualities: ropes serve the function of supporting, uniting and connecting. In her work, Mar Ramón Soriano’s ceramics symbolize the body – fragile and precariously supported. They represent emptiness, form and volume. The dialogue between soft and hard, familiar and strange, shapes a whole that seeks to make accomplices of our own bodies. “Through the dimensions of ceramics, I conquer space. I construct modules that stack on top of each other, like imposing skyscrapers or obelisks, aiming to achieve height or monumentality through the collectivization of more modest modules. These volumes enclose the seed of the body, which carries and is carried, serving as support or being supported by others.“

The installation If I collect a lot of bodies I can be as long as I want to be (2022-2023) is part of the artist’s Infinite Vase series, in which small gestures and small bodies – in repetition – conquer and define the gallery space. Canvas, pictorial material par excellence, also becomes sculpture. Between materials and bodies, there is a dialogue that can be empathetic, but can also be forced. In some cases, one body supports another, while in other instances, bodies are pressed together with elastic bands. The tension of these bands exerts enough pressure on the bodies to hold them together and constructs stable structures that can be autonomously placed on the ground.

Mar Ramón Soriano (b. 1993, Valencia, Spain) lives and works in Niñodaguia, Ourense, a small Galician town with a strong ceramic tradition. After studying fine arts at the University of Vigo, Ramón received her Ph.D. with a research in Gender as a Process in Object Art in 2022. She has participated in residencies in Spain and Portugal and is currently conducting independent research at the Observational Practice Lab / Parsons School of Design on a Fulbright scholarship. She has exhibited in CGAC (Santiago) and MARCO (Vigo) and has had solo exhibitions, including Foams, sponges (ArteSantander 2022), The infinite vase (Zona C, 2022), Empathic systems (Alterarte, 2022), A curve a wave a body (Art Mustang, 2021) and The Optimal Form/Shape (ARCO Madrid / Galería Nordés 2021).