ARTIST STATEMENT

On the series SETS I utilize sharp angles, textures, and layers to construct forms that are strong, secluded, and unsettling. I reimagine objects by reflecting on their intended purpose, repurposing them through transformation.

A quiet uncanniness. Emotional detachment as a means of adaptation. Present, yet inaccessible.

My artistic practice takes the form of scenography, photography, performance, and sculpture. I explore the human condition through objects made both for and against us: botched ergonomics, off-the-shelf materials, and remnants from previous projects. To seek, find, discard, replace, destroy, and create. An auto-fiction tinted with absurdity.

BIOGRAPHY

Isabel is a multidisciplinary artist born in Lisbon. Trained as an industrial designer, her sculptural work draws directly from years spent designing and building sets that were never intended to endure. Materials once discarded after film productions become the foundation for a body of work that treats scenography itself as both medium and subject. Her academics, professional trajectory and identity, often incorporating performance, come together in a surreal vision of SELF through the object.