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Teresa Solar Abboud
Teresa Solar Abboud’s imaginary is based on the morphology of speech and, by extension, of thought. Concepts such as resistance, insulation, tightness and immunity are developed through a multidisciplinary production focused on sculpture and drawing, and based on the creation of multi- layered narratives. Throat, pore, hatch, tongue, pipe, her pieces are populated with connotations of connectivity and flow. Hers is a practice full of words and full of organs that create words: a talkative work that doubts itself but nevertheless wants to talk.
In recent years, Solar Abboud has developed large-format installations in which families of sister sculptures vary in shape and size, creating complex ecosystems of thought. The reflection about the great stories of progress in contemporary society are opposed to micro-narratives that have to do with her own body: sports injuries, stuttering and daily transits through her city are a fundamental part of her expressive sphere. She takes up the space with pieces of very different size and materiality: clay, found objects and human symbols coexist in her work. Teresa Solar Abboud approaches these relationships from an organic sensibility, as if they were bodily functions, but she also accentuates the complex system of relationships in the industrial world, where hybrid forms of existence that combine organic and synthetic properties are constantly being produced. She interprets the clay as a metaphor for the relationship of mankind with the geological mantle on which our civilizations lay and thus creates, through the intrinsic insulating qualities of the material, cavernous systems with which to tell stories of self-protection and isolation.
Her current solo exhibition at CA2M in Madrid will travel to MACBA in Barcelona in 2024 and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Torino in 2025, and it will be accompanied by the publishing of her first monograph. In 2024 she will also open a major commission at The High Line in New York City.
She participated in the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Cecilia Alemani (2022). In 2021 she took part in the Liverpool Biennial curated by Manuela Moscoso with a public art installation at Exchange Flags titled ‘Osteoclast’. She also participated in KölnSkulptur #9 curated by Chus Martínez in Cologne (2017-2019).
Recent solo shows include venues such as the Hayward Gallery in London, UK; Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon; 1646, The Hague; Matadero Madrid; Index Foundation, Stockholm; Der TANK, Institut Kunst in Basel. She has taken part in group shows at Pinchuk Foundation, Kiev; Museo de Arte Abstracto, Cuenca, Spain; Centro Conde Duque, Madrid; Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca, Spain; Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid, Spain; CA2M, Madrid; Haus der Kunst, Münich, Fundación Marcelino Botín, Santander; Maxxi, Rome; General Public in Berlin; Kunstverein München; and La Casa Encendida, Madrid.
Her work is part of public collections such as: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Spain; MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain; TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Madrid, Spain; Colección Fundación Botín, Santander, Spain; Colección CA2M – Comunidad de Madrid, Spain; Colección MAEC Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores y de Cooperación, Madrid, Spain; Colección Fundación Coca-Cola, Madrid, Spain, and the Colección Museo FRAC Córcega, France, among others.
Teresa Solar Abboud lives and works in Madrid, Spain.