Memento Matter
Verduyn
Verduyn heerbaan 10 9790 Moregem, Belgium
Verduyn heerbaan 10 9790 Moregem, Moregem, Belgium
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Memento Matter
At URVANITY Madrid (March 6–9, 2025), Memento Matter brings together the works of Maria Abaddon, Joke Hansen, Pablo Mercante, and Andrea Marco Corvino, each engaging with the transformative potential of material and memory. Through a fusion of painting, sculpture, and textile-based experimentation, these artists navigate the intersections of tradition and contemporary culture, the personal and the universal, permanence and erosion.
Maria Abaddon’s visceral textile-based sculptures explore the body as both a vessel and a battlefield. In her works, layered fibers and open wounds speak of fragility and resilience, confronting gendered stigmas and the politics of physicality. Her practice merges irony with sharp social critique, engaging with histories of motherhood, bodily autonomy, and the oppressive weight of cultural expectations.
Joke Hansen redefines the boundaries of painting, rejecting the conventional canvas in favor of irregular, dynamic surfaces. Her shaped paintings engage in a constant dialogue between gesture and form, where the act of painting itself becomes an exploration of material tension and spatial disruption. The works hover between the familiar and the unexpected, blurring the line between object and image.
Pablo Mercante’s practice is rooted in process and intuition, where abstraction and figuration dissolve into one another. Influenced by classical music’s rhythmic structures, his paintings embrace repetition, layering, and fluidity, constructing worlds where nature and the artificial coexist. His recent works evoke the symbiotic relationship between plant life and industrial remnants, presenting a landscape that is both organic and manufactured, eternal and transient.
Andrea Marco Corvino’s multidisciplinary approach combines ceramic, tapestry, neon, and found objects to create immersive environments where cultural codes collide. His work is a playful yet critical investigation of exoticism, nostalgia, and identity. By reinterpreting archival materials and vernacular design, he builds spaces that invite participation and storytelling, engaging with themes of migration, hybridity, and the constructed nature of memory.
Together, these artists form Memento Matter—a dialogue on the tangible traces of history, the fluidity of identity, and the ways in which materials become vessels for remembrance, transformation, and reinvention.
At URVANITY Madrid (March 6–9, 2025), Memento Matter brings together the works of Maria Abaddon, Joke Hansen, Pablo Mercante, and Andrea Marco Corvino, each engaging with the transformative potential of material and memory. Through a fusion of painting, sculpture, and textile-based experimentation, these artists navigate the intersections of tradition and contemporary culture, the personal and the universal, permanence and erosion.
Maria Abaddon’s visceral textile-based sculptures explore the body as both a vessel and a battlefield. In her works, layered fibers and open wounds speak of fragility and resilience, confronting gendered stigmas and the politics of physicality. Her practice merges irony with sharp social critique, engaging with histories of motherhood, bodily autonomy, and the oppressive weight of cultural expectations.
Joke Hansen redefines the boundaries of painting, rejecting the conventional canvas in favor of irregular, dynamic surfaces. Her shaped paintings engage in a constant dialogue between gesture and form, where the act of painting itself becomes an exploration of material tension and spatial disruption. The works hover between the familiar and the unexpected, blurring the line between object and image.
Pablo Mercante’s practice is rooted in process and intuition, where abstraction and figuration dissolve into one another. Influenced by classical music’s rhythmic structures, his paintings embrace repetition, layering, and fluidity, constructing worlds where nature and the artificial coexist. His recent works evoke the symbiotic relationship between plant life and industrial remnants, presenting a landscape that is both organic and manufactured, eternal and transient.
Andrea Marco Corvino’s multidisciplinary approach combines ceramic, tapestry, neon, and found objects to create immersive environments where cultural codes collide. His work is a playful yet critical investigation of exoticism, nostalgia, and identity. By reinterpreting archival materials and vernacular design, he builds spaces that invite participation and storytelling, engaging with themes of migration, hybridity, and the constructed nature of memory.
Together, these artists form Memento Matter—a dialogue on the tangible traces of history, the fluidity of identity, and the ways in which materials become vessels for remembrance, transformation, and reinvention.
