Artissima 2025

31 October - 2 November 2025

BOOTH PF 10

PRESENT FUTURE

Marina González Guerreiro (1992, A Guarda) predominantly makes detailed, large-scale installations consisting of a wide range of materials: iron, wax, ropes, wood, water, sand, ceramics and found objects. Her creative process starts with the accumulation of materials, making the studio a space for trial, where objects and images from the most diverse origins come together and stage an intimate spectacle of the artist’s mind.

In her recent projects, González Guerreiro’s research centers on the instruments, artifacts, gadgets, and games humans have created in their ongoing attempts to grasp and articulate the abstract concept of time – both quantitatively and metaphorically. A significant body of her work, for instance, focuses on the clepsydra, or water clock, which uses the flow of water to mark the passage of time. For Present Future, she focuses on how wheels and threads have been employed as metaphors to illustrate a linear understanding of time’s evolution. By combining natural, processed, and repurposed materials, González Guerreiro continually seeks a balance between humanity and nature, order and disorder, control and chance, reason and emotion. In essence, she emphasizes the poetic quality that emerges from this ongoing negotiation between opposites.

In her artistic practice, Marina González Guerreiro reflects on the tension between nature and humanity using mixed materials, emphasizing the poetic interplay of opposites.