Tierra de Nadie is the winning project of the first edition of the Petrona Program, an initiative of the Department of Cultural Internationalization of the Ministry of Education and Culture of Uruguay and supported by Miguel Hernández University of Altea, Spain

The project is part of Jorge López Galería's second residency, where Uruguayan artist Candela Bado is invited to work for a month at Miguel Hernández University of Altea, and is curated by Agustina Bornhoffer.

Candela Bado creates installations that consider the relationship between objects that divide domestic interior space and the exterior structures that operate it. In her work, she uses tiles to explore their boundary function, simultaneously recording the transformation of matter on their surfaces. In the accumulation and arrangement of these ceramic elements, the grid becomes a system of order and tension, articulating a spatiality that proposes new forms of interpretation through zenithal observation and the constellation of objects.

From a material perspective, Tierra de Nadie From a material perspective, Tierra de Nadie examines the transit of bodies in and out of the home through the circulation of elements such as water, glass, ceramics, and metal, placing the function of these constructed sites in tension, whether as a place of containment or exclusion. In this sense, the work questions the way architectural languages have been used to impose norms of order and separation in living space.

Candela Bado (Montevideo, 1991) is a visual artist who works with sculpture, ceramics, and installation, exploring the power of liminal objects and their relationship to space and memory. She studied at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and Columbia University in New York. Her work has been exhibited at institutions such as Wallach Gallery in New York, TENT Rotterdam, and Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan, among others. She will soon participate in the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture residency in the United States.