On completing her studies in Fine Arts, which included sojourns at Barcelona University (1991-1996) and at leading international schools and residencies including Ateliers Arnhem (The Netherlands, 1997-1998), Hogeschool voor de Kunst en Vormgeving (Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands, 1997), the International Studio and Curatorial Program (New York, 2011) and the Sonae/ Serralves Project (Porto, Portugal, 2012), Patricia Dauder first exhibited her work in group exhibitions organised in the Netherlands at the end of the 1990s.
Dauder is noted for her use of drawing, painting, sculpture and the projected image. Also important are the protocols that the artist activates in the construction of her pieces: she subjects them to different temperatures and degrees of humidity, lets the light strike them, allows oxidation processes that alter their surfaces and buries them for a time. Thus, her work can be compared with that of the alchemist who explores the limits and possible transformation of the material – deleted, cracked and lost in fabrics, papers, clay and plaster – and, at the time, with that of the archaeologist, whose techniques open the door to a past era, restoring the effects of time and the elements on those same images and objects. This reflection on transience is also an essential feature of her films, which frequently play out in scenarios that break free from a recognisable chronology and location.
Patricia Dauder has held solo shows at a range of venues including the Contemporary Art Museum (Vigo, 2015); the Serralves Foundation (Porto, Portugal, 2012); and the Suñol Foundation (Barcelona, 2010). She has recently been part of group exhibitions at Barcelona Contemporary Art Museum (2015); the Andalusia Contemporary Art Centre (Seville, 2010, 2014 & 2015); and the Lázaro Galdiano Museum (Madrid, 2015 and 2016).
On completing her studies in Fine Arts, which included sojourns at Barcelona University (1991-1996) and at leading international schools and residencies including Ateliers Arnhem (The Netherlands, 1997-1998), Hogeschool voor de Kunst en Vormgeving (Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands, 1997), the International Studio and Curatorial Program (New York, 2011) and the Sonae/ Serralves Project (Porto, Portugal, 2012), Patricia Dauder first exhibited her work in group exhibitions organised in the Netherlands at the end of the 1990s.
Dauder is noted for her use of drawing, painting, sculpture and the projected image. Also important are the protocols that the artist activates in the construction of her pieces: she subjects them to different temperatures and degrees of humidity, lets the light strike them, allows oxidation processes that alter their surfaces and buries them for a time. Thus, her work can be compared with that of the alchemist who explores the limits and possible transformation of the material – deleted, cracked and lost in fabrics, papers, clay and plaster – and, at the time, with that of the archaeologist, whose techniques open the door to a past era, restoring the effects of time and the elements on those same images and objects. This reflection on transience is also an essential feature of her films, which frequently play out in scenarios that break free from a recognisable chronology and location.
Patricia Dauder has held solo shows at a range of venues including the Contemporary Art Museum (Vigo, 2015); the Serralves Foundation (Porto, Portugal, 2012); and the Suñol Foundation (Barcelona, 2010). She has recently been part of group exhibitions at Barcelona Contemporary Art Museum (2015); the Andalusia Contemporary Art Centre (Seville, 2010, 2014 & 2015); and the Lázaro Galdiano Museum (Madrid, 2015 and 2016).