Lucía Bayón is the artist selected by the jura for this residency, aimed at artists in the early stages of their career based in Spain, and lasting 11 weeks fully funded at Gasworks (London) from April 8 to June 24, 2024. Gasworks residencies allow for self-directed professional development, artistic exchange and experimentation.
Lucía Bayón lives and works in Madrid. Her practice centers around sculpture and, at times, writing. Attending to processes of structural disarticulation and subsequent reconstitution of chosen objects, Bayón combines the use of manual and industrial processing methods to interrogate material hierarchies and their conditions of production. Shaped by the insistence of recurring gestures, the practice sustains a circuit of gradual transformation — one that enmeshes the residual in slow becoming.
Bayón studied Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid and the Universität der Künste Berlin, and holds a Master in Fine Arts from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam. Her recent work has been exhibited in spaces and institutions such as La Capella (Barcelona, 2023), Sid Motion Gallery (London, 2023), Art Nou (Barcelona, 2023), Centro Botín (Santander, 2022), Tenerife Espacio de las Artes (Tenerife, 2022), Intersticio (Madrid, 2022), La Casa Encendida (Madrid, 2021) or Haus Wien (Vienna, 202), among others. Upcoming solo shows will take place at HalfHouse (Barcelona, 2024) and Belmonte (Madrid, 2024).
CALL
| Deadline: 4 December 2023 |
Gasworks programs up to sixteen residencies each year, inviting emerging international artists to work alongside a London-based community of nine peers for three months. Residencies are non-prescriptive, process-based and focused on allowing artists to research and develop new work. These opportunities, made public through Open Studios and events, encourage interaction, dialogue and professional networking.
Gasworks provides significant pastoral and curatorial support throughout the residency, however artists are also expected to be proactive and motivated and lead the research and production of their work whilst in London.
> More information (Gasworks)