Sandra Val

Sandra Val (Tarragona, 1979) lives and works in Madrid. She holds a BA in Fine Arts and an MA in Research in Art and Creation from the Complutense University of Madrid. Her practice investigates the spatial, symbolic and ritual systems of organisation that underpin architectures of worship, power and knowledge. Through sculpture and installation, primarily developed in porcelain, she evokes gardens, temples and game boards. Val constructs scenarios in which matter and geometry are transformed into thought.

Her work combines traditional materials and techniques linked to cultural heritage with contemporary strategies of experimentation, creating environments that challenge established dogmas and invite viewers to reflect on how these structures shape our experience of time and space.

Situated between imaginary archaeology and utopia, her work presents fragments of architectures suspended in time, ceramic surfaces and geometries that allude equally to the sacred and the political. Through these compositions, the artist reflects on how the spaces we inhabit—whether real or symbolic—shape our memory and our desire for permanence.

The utopian and timeless landscapes she proposes do not seek to represent an ideal world, but rather to provide a framework from which to imagine alternative ways of inhabiting time, constructing consciousness and rethinking our relationship with the world around us. Her work has recently been presented at ARCO Madrid, the Museo Nacional de Cerámica y Artes Suntuarias González Martí (Valencia), CentroCentro (Madrid), the Gyeonggi Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art (South Korea), the Museo Barjola (Gijón) and the Museo Lázaro Galdiano (Madrid), as well as at institutions and galleries throughout Europe and the Americas.