Contemporary ceramic sculpture by Fenerui against a dark background

Fenerui · David Fernández Sans

Inhabiting
time

Ceramic sculpture born from the slow observation of landscape.

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Before creating, we must learn to look.

Forest in the mist
01 · Looking
The landscape does not explain.
It leaves traces.

Mist, water, rock, bark. Forms that change without ceasing to be themselves.

FENERUI

A practice born from observing how time transforms matter.

Fenerui is the sculptural practice of David Fernández Sans. Landscape is not a model to reproduce, but a place from which to observe processes: erosion, accumulation, wear, change and memory.

Mountain landscape reflected in water

The landscape already contains
a language.

Detail of yellow lichens on a branch
Light. Texture. Colour.
Flowing water among river stones
Water transforms without imposing a form.
Detail of a mineral ceramic surface
02 · Process
The surface remembers.
David Fernández adjusting a large-scale blue ceramic sculpture in the studio
Form is not imposed.
It is discovered.

As the work grows, the body also enters the conversation. To build is to add, remove, support and adjust until the form finds its balance.

Process as a dialogue between body, scale and matter.

03 · Work

One language.
Different forms of presence.

Ceramic installation in development
From the singular piece to the ensemble.
Blue Proto-sphere, work by Fenerui
Proto-spheres
Detail of a large-scale blue sculpture in the studio
Large scale · Curve. Light. Shadow.
Installation of small ceramic elements suspended in space
The space of the void and essential matter.
Black ceramic piece with a mineral texture and green accents against a black background
Matter emerges from darkness.
A sculpture does not fill a space.

It changes it. It opens a distance, creates a pause and alters the way the body moves and looks.

Sculpture integrated into an interior architecture
Visitor looking at and photographing a group of works
Work and gaze
The work changes
when someone stops.
Portrait of David Fernández Sans
David Fernández Sans

From sustainability to art:
a path shaped by earth.

Fenerui grows from an ongoing relationship with nature and the need to transform this way of looking into form, surface and space.

Contact

If a piece made you stop,
I’d like to know what you saw in it.

For available works, exhibitions, site-specific projects or collaborations.

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