Candela Bado
Bio: Candela Bado is a visual artist working in sculpture and installation. She focuses on researching architectural language, particularly how the form and function of an object can be used to map and speculate histories of resistance against methods of erasure.
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Instagram: @candelabado
Thesis Exhibition
Artist Statement: Candela Bado (b. 1991 Montevideo) studied Fine Arts at The Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague, Netherlands. She has been part of numerous exhibitions in institutions and galleries among which highlighted are her recent solo and duo exhibitions at SUBTE, Walden Naturae and Liquido, amongst other group shows in Uruguay. Internationally she has been exhibited in TENT Rotterdam; Platform TRAUMA, Amsterdam; Salone Internazionale del Mobile, Milan; Snehta and ASFA in Athens, amongst others. In 2018, she was invited for a residency in Snehta, Athens and was nominated for the National Fine Arts Prize in Uruguay. Candela has received grants from STROOM Den Haag, in the Netherlands and the Ministry of Education and Culture in Uruguay in recognition of her practice.
Candela Bado
i bear magnets in my pocket, 2023
Ceramic, porcelain, glaze, copper, clay
Courtesy of the artist
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map of an afterlife (first segment), 2023
Copper on ceramic
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map of an afterlife (second segment), 2023
Copper on ceramic
Courtesy of the artist
First Year Exhibition
Candela Bado
Ruin, but also afterlife, 2022
Glazed ceramic tile tiles, penny, nickel, dime, quarter, and dollar coins
110” x 80” x .5”
Courtesy the artist
