Sculpture Research Group (ES2)

Head of research group

• María Yolanda Herranz Pascual

Researchers

Research Lines

• Creation and research in/of contemporary art
• The alphabetic sign and the word as a sculptural material and concept. The word as a reference in sculpture. Sculpture and the search for meaning: the generation of sense.
• Art and gender. The creative experience and the feminine condition. The relationship between women and contemporary art, from aesthetic, critical, political, and market perspectives, with a special emphasis on the interrelationships between the art-woman binomial in the international, Spanish, and Galician spheres.
• The body and the current artistic project. Body and sculpture:
  • The body as a problem.
  • The body as a material.
  • The body as a place.
  • The body as experience.
  • Body, identity, and existence.
• Artistic creations, both visual and conceptual, in which motif, intention, and media are situated in the concept of nature: reflection on new spaces, nature as a place of artistic experience, and the interrelation of body and nature.
• Sculpture and public space. Poetics and politics of/in the city: places, transitions, and habitability. Encounters, drifts, and escapes between sculpture and architecture.
• The fourth dimension: time and movement in sculpture.
• Teaching methodologies in contemporary artistic creation.
• Artistic management and organization.

Services

• Production of artistic works.
• Thesis art exhibitions.
• Exhibition curating.
• Courses on sculpture and creative processes.
• Expert approach to the areas of the research lines for conferences, papers, seminars, roundtables, articles, books, and book chapters.
• Development of cultural events linked to the construction of value.

Keywords

Contemporary artistic creation, sculpture, painting, drawing, body, gender, identity, public art, performance art, artistic interventions in nature, time and movement in sculpture, everyday objects as sculptural materials, food in contemporary artistic creation, clothing as artistic material.

Scientific output