GRUTTA
INÉS MIÑO
MADRID, SPAIN
Inés’ practice is centered around the interpretation of the city and the productive landscapes that conceal an unregulated order. She imagines and creates out-of-hidden sites that allow glimpses of an order that takes root in the imaginaries of the underground or the hidden places of the wastelands. She uses methodologies that question functional design as a legacy of a completely organized and domesticated landscape and thus generate narratives that confront the productive world.
During her processes she generates a constant dialogue between the material qualities and the corporeal relationship that the material requires and establishes with its treatment, therefore altering the physical and affective state of the person. Ines’ work seeks to explore the inner and intrinsic qualities of the material and allows herself to be led by them as a way of operating to give them agency Inés puts this material dialogue into practice making small sculptures to immersive installations. She advocates that the strength, physical strain, and arousal required by heavy work such as carrying large quantities of material or carving a hard and rigid material such as wood, are complementary and at the same time in dialogue with the serenity and delicacy that other materials force you to have when handling them, carrying out a repeated movement and working from the minor, the fragile and the feeble. Based in London, she is part of the architecture and design collective Assemble Studios, a Turner Prize-awarded practice. In parallel, she is still involved with her home country, Spain, carrying out projects as one of the founding partners of the Collective ‘La Cuarta Piel’ based in Alicante.
Mackintosh Bedside Table
Mackintosh Bedside Table
Shawl over Wooden Armchair
Shawl over Wooden Armchair
Sillita
Sillita
Chimera
Chimera