Mercedes Pimiento
Artist and researcher
Qualifications and academic training
- Degree in fine arts. University of Seville and Winchester School of Art
- Master in Artistic Production and Research. University of Barcelona
- PhD student. Advanced Studies in Artistic Productions. University of Barcelona
Activity and/or professional career
Since 2015 she lives and works in Barcelona. She has shown her artistic work in numerous art centers and galleries both locally and nationally and internationally. From 2020 to 2023 she has been an FI researcher and teacher at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona. She is co-founder and co-coordinator of FASE, a collective space dedicated to contemporary artistic practices located in l'Hospitalet de Llobregat, with which since 2018 she has developed numerous exhibition and mediation projects.
Investigation
Her work focuses on investigating the way we relate to the spaces we inhabit, paying special attention to the construction and manufacturing processes through which we define our environment. Architecture, urban planning or landscape often appear as the main theme or starting point, understood as the result and container of a series of social, economic, cultural and material processes. Her projects are usually linked to specific places, and through different media—such as sculpture, installation, video or photography—they propose a series of essays or records of the composition and material history that constitutes them.
Work
- Less than Container Load. NoguerasBlanchard Gallery, L’Hospitalet, Barcelona (2023)
- Generation. The House on (2023)
- Com em puc enamorar d'aquest jardí? PHASE, l'Hospitalet de Llobregat (2022)
- Arquitectures terminals. Arranz-Bravo Foundation, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona (2021)
- Entre las formas que van hacia la sierpe y las formas que buscan el cristal. Andalusian Center (2020)
Awards
- Sorigué Award. Artnou, Sorigué Foundation
- Generations. La Casa Encendida, Montemadrid Foundation
- Art for Change. La Caixa Foundation
- INJUVE Creation Grant
- Guasch Coranty Foundation Scholarship for artistic creation