Attua Aparicio
Spain · Residence time：2019
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Attua Aparicio Torinos is a London based Spanish artist. She graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2011 from MA Design Products. She explores the area where design, craft and art meet.
In 2011 her and Oscar Lessing co-founded Silo studio. Silo’s work is a mix of craft and technology, which aims to find new ways of making by adopting a hands-on approach.
By keeping their developments open and sharing it in videos and workshops they seek to inspire people to question how things are made and to make more for themselves.
Attua also collaborates in a regular basis with her sister Saelia. They collaborate for a long time, but not officially until last year when they presented the show your consequences have actions, at the Tetley, Leeds, UK and cadena atrófica, at cpdc, Murcia, Spain.
In 2018 Attua went to the EKWC to develop a solo project: Ceramic & Glass. Her project begun at glass artist and partner Jochen Holz’s bin. Frustrated with the fact that the borosilicate glass can not be recycled and powered with an innate prejudice-free view of materials, Attua decided to use the glass shards as a raw material. She failed (which she didn't achieve-as she could foresee- but in doing so she produced rich material research based in trial and error which she is continuing at TXC.
In Jingdezhen she is scaling up and continuing with Ceramic & Glass. She is exploring form by
hand building, using borosilicate for slip casting and for glazing, and only using porcelain as clay body. She is also trying to get to work with as many masters as possible. Trying to get to know and utilise the wide variety of skills available at the porcelain capital of the world.
Attua likes to work with a wide variety of materials.
From working with plastics she enjoyed the feel of using something very new, still with plenty of room for development for artistics applications. She especially enjoyed using industrial materials in different ways that they have been designed for. But due to environmental concerns she never felt totally comfortable about the use of plastics on her work. That why she has made the decision to stop working with plastic. That’s how she started working with ceramics. The vast history of ceramics as well as its endless possibilities and the alchemy of it have hooked Attua.
Interested in hybrid materials, questions the conventionalism about materials. Artists can challenge the materials and use them in ways they are not supposed to be used.
We are living in the anthropocene, the idea of pure materials is out of date and it only reminds me of nationalistic ideas of superiority and racism.