Paula Garcia Sans

Statement

Paula Garcia Sans is a visual artist born in Barcelona and based in Amsterdam. In their artistic practice they explore the uncanny through digital tools and sculpture, using mediums like stone, wax, 3D softwares and game engines. Strongly influenced by sci-fi narratives, their work captures the tension and blurring lines between the artificial and the natural from their daily observations and personal experiences.

GlogauAIR Project

Ethereal Estate is a multimedia installation composed of a body of sculptures and a 3rd person exploration videogame, based on a specific geographic situation that happened in Spain in 2023: the recent droughts in Catalunya uncovered the ruins of Sant Romà de Sau, a village flooded in 1960 for the construction of a water reservoir. I visited the area and entirely scanned it in 3D, obtaining a digital footprint of it. Both the videogame and the sculptures start from these scans and explore the topic of hauntology – a concept that examines how the past complicates our ability to envision the future – through the figure of an amnesiac ghost.

CV Summary

Selected groupshows

• • Prospects Art Rotterdam 2025
  • Museum Night at the Moving Arts Center Amsterdam 2024
  • The Sun Called It A Day, Neverneverland, Amsterdam 2024
  • Everything is on the one, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam 2024
  • Nacreous Clouds, commissioned by Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen for the Boring Festival, Haarlem, 2023
  • Future Deserts, Salbker Wassertum, Magdeburg, Germany 2023
  • Bodies that don’t age, Douanelab, Amsterdam 2022
  • MIRA festival, invited by mmmad.art, 2021
  • Campaign Images for the Dutch National Opera, 2021

Grants

• • Prize Sala d’Art Jove 2025
  • Stimuleringfonds Research Grant for Digital Culture 2024
  • Mondriaan Start 2023

Education

• BA Moving Image, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, 2020

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