Antonia Bañados

Antonia Bañados, originally from Chile and currently undertaking postgraduate studies at Edinburgh College of Art, works in painting and sculpture.

 

Playing with the transformation of tangible objects into intangible moments and experiences, and vice versa, she is especially attracted to the vertigo that surrounds the perception of time.

 

Focusing on objects that are familiar and unimportant, easy to recognize but with little emotional agency, her work aims to dilute the everyday into other realities. As pre-existing materials are transformed into sculptural objects, they become vessels for immaterial concepts, such as emptiness or absence.

 

For Platform: 2015, her work takes the form of museum display furniture, containing small white and transparent futuristic-like objects, juxtaposed with starry landscapes, as if they were evidence of a past scientific expedition. 

 

Mon—Sun, 10am—6pm

Venue: 9-11 Blair Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1QR