Solaris
A solo exhibition by Raquel Figueira
at D-Unit, Bristol
For her first solo show, Raquel Figueira introduces a new body of work that expands her practice in painting and drawing into spatial forms. Working with materials sourced from scrap metal dealers in East London, she engages in tactile interventions – marking, bending, scratching, coating – on discarded metal objects at various stages of collapse.
The works inhabit a fragile economy between utility and obsolescence, asking what kinds of knowledge might surface through gesture, improvisation and impulse. Industrial debris becomes a site of friction and interference, gesturing toward troubled energetic flows at human and cosmic scales.
Painting and drawing are present, but here the artist engages primarily with their undoing. Suggesting a space that resists resolution, they become a process of attuning to shifting relations and material encounters. Through a constellation of ephemeral formations, Solaris turns to precarity and adaptation as ways of inhabiting a time of planetary ends.
(Installation shots to come soon)