Wonder Waste
"Hola i chau are 'selector-collectors': their sculptures are fabricated from found materials, transforming debris and discarded matter into objects worthy of contemplation. They identify a poetics in discordance. With the intention of giving visibility to otherwise invisible matter, they extend the lifespan of typically disposable things, fracturing the thoughtless patterns of consumption in a consumerist world and finding beauty in that which often goes overlooked."
Concave water
Found materials, 60 x 81,5 x 52 cm.
Berlin 2025
Working on installation becomes an act of renegotiation: with time, with memory, and with the material’s own resistance. In that ongoing conversation, new possibilities emerge. The installation is never finished only suspended, momentarily, in transition.
This installation is an ongoing exploration of found materials objects detached from their original contexts, now reassembled into a space of reflection, distortion, and dissociation. The work resists finality. It is a process: part discovery, part disruption.
Materials are chosen not for what they were, but for what they might become. What was once functional becomes ambiguous, fragmented, and reconfigured, inviting viewers to confront the instability of perception.
Found materials, 60 x 81,5 x 52 cm.
Berlin 2025
Working on installation becomes an act of renegotiation: with time, with memory, and with the material’s own resistance. In that ongoing conversation, new possibilities emerge. The installation is never finished only suspended, momentarily, in transition.
This installation is an ongoing exploration of found materials objects detached from their original contexts, now reassembled into a space of reflection, distortion, and dissociation. The work resists finality. It is a process: part discovery, part disruption.
Materials are chosen not for what they were, but for what they might become. What was once functional becomes ambiguous, fragmented, and reconfigured, inviting viewers to confront the instability of perception.
A Map of the Transient
Mesh fabric* stretched on aluminum frame
160 x 160 x 3,5 cm.
Berlin 2025
This work explores scaffolding not only as a physical structure, but as a symbol of the unfinished of what is in constant flux. It represents the temporary support of a city that is perpetually under construction, both materially and symbolically: a city that is never complete, continually being redefined.
The concept of reinterpretation emerges as an invitation to look beyond the surface. Every element, every layer of the work, can be read in multiple ways, opening up diverse possibilities for understanding and appropriation. The city is no longer a fixed space it becomes a dynamic canvas.
*It's worth noting that these plastic fabrics were used to cover the scaffolding that remained on our building for two and a half years. The aim is to draw attention to the ongoing issue we, the residents of Berlin, are subjected to a form of slow and legal torture.
Wrapped in that translucent mesh
that covered the facade
on pause, in transit.
A temporary refuge.
Each move was a farewell
and a new beginning,
a choreography of boxes,
suitcases, and silences.
Chasing a space to create,
to sustain the practice
amidst displacement.
A witness to everything:
waiting, discomfort,
wear and tear.
Hanging between us
and the outside world
matter and memory.
La ola
Site-specific installation with discarded materials
The sole purpose was to give it a last ephemeral and contemplative moment.
Berlin 2021
Los costados
Discarded PVC, 97 x 43 x 48 cm
Berlin 2022
Discarded materials, 100 x 75 x 63 cm.
November 2019
“Things, imperceptibly,
become detached from themselves
and flee to other forms,
towards other names”
become detached from themselves
and flee to other forms,
towards other names”
Entreverado
Discarded PVC, 95 x 58 x 29 cm.
Berlin 2022
Totem
Discarded plexiglas, 68 x 58 x 33 cm.
Berlin 2022
Untitled
Discarded material
Berlin 2022
The stillness of motion.
Site-specific installation at Weserhalle Gallery
Discarded materials, 210 x 120 x 30 cm.
Berlin 2019
Site-specific Installation at Weserhalle Gallery
Discarded materials, 60 x 30 x 60 cm.
Berlin 2019
Untitled
Discarded PVC, 71 x 68 x 63 cm.
Berlin 2022
Embrace to emptiness
Discarded Plexiglas, 58 x 41 x 40 cm.
Berlin 2022
Abrazo torcido
Discarded steel, 81 x 37 x 47 cm.
Berlin 2022
The unexpected shapes
Discarded PVC, 95 x 65 x 3 cm.
Berlin 2021
Las formas inesperadas I
Discarded Plexiglas, 46 x 42 x 18 cm.
Berlin 2021
Las formas inesperadas II
Discarded Plexiglas, 59 x 17 x 23 cm.
Berlin 2021
Site-specific Installation
Berlin Street
2018
