This publication presents the work of Teresa Solar Abboud (Madrid, 1985), which centres on the creation of sculptural ecosystems where families of sister forms create flows and communities, repeat and mutate in space. It is the artist's first monograph and it accompanies the exhibitions Machine Bird Dream, Bird Machine Dream and Bird Dream Machine at Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo respectively
By working with organic elements, the artist constructs stories around isolation, immunity and connectivity that appeal to a contemporary subject, fragmentary and in constant displacement. Although sculpture occupies a principal place in Solar Abboud’s production, video has also been a relevant medium, especially in the early years of her artistic practice. Together with her working sketchbooks, they form the support for the origin of each shape, of each piece, and for the relations generated between them. Her most recent works are hybrid, syncretic beings with halfanimal, half-machine bodies that occupy an intermediate space between engineering and mythology.
The publication has three separate editions in Spanish, Catalan and English, which include the texts of the curators of the project –Tania Pardo, Claudia Segura Campins and Irene Calderoni–, the contributions of Chus Martínez and Manuela Moscoso and a conversation between the artist and Cecilia Alemani, as well as an extensive graphic documentation of her work and reproductions of her notebooks.
