Talks with artist from the exhibition An Oasis at Sunset 
Claire de Santa Coloma and Inês Grosso

The curators of the exhibition Rosa Lleó and Inês Grosso talk to some of the artists about the works and projects carried out within the scope of the commemorative exhibition, the 20th Anniversary of the EDP Foundation Awards. 

Claire de Santa Coloma (1983, Buenos Aires, Argentina) lives and works in Lisbon. Her sculptural work is concerned with formal questions that focus on the primordiality of matter (usually wood) and the theme of sculpture itself. The economy of means is one of the governing principals in Santa Coloma’s practice, oftentimes dictating the final shape of the object. The relationship between the viewer and the sculpture is yet another important layer in the reading of her work. Conceptually, it has been the common thread amongst her latest solo shows. Santa Coloma studied direct carving sculpture at Ateliers Beaux Arts de la ville de Paris.
At the same time, she obtained a MA in Visual Arts Research at La Sorbonne, Paris. Between 2007 and 2009 she was artist in residence at Casa de Velázquez, Madrid. Between 2009-2010 she attended the Independent Studies programme at MAUMAUS, in Lisbon, with which she participated in the 29th edition of the São Paulo Biennial. In 2010, Santa Coloma participated in the residency at La Belle Alliance (Metropole), at Goethe Institute Lisbon. In 2017 she was invited to join the programme of Lisboa Capital de Cultura Ibero Americana with a residency at Coruchéus studios and a project for Galeria Quadrum. Also in 2017, she won the EDP Foundation New Artists Award (Lisbon 2017). Santa Coloma exhibits her work regularly since 2008.