CLARA SÁNCHEZ SALA: FROM IVORY TO LIVER-TONE

From Ivory to Liver-Tone unfolds as a sustained exploration of the boundaries between matter and body. The project emerges from a persistent search to give inert materials a corporeal gravity, activating the illusion of life in sculptural forms through gestures that shift between the ritual and the everyday.

Halfway between the intimacy of gesture and the resonance of the classical, the works are built from diverse materials—such as makeup—juxtaposed with others of sculptural tradition and historical weight, like ivory or silk. This friction between the domestic and the noble challenges conventional hierarchies, proposing a dialogue between the sensory experience of the body and the abstraction of being.

The installation creates a space where the sculptural seems to brush against the human—not through formal mimesis, but through its ability to evoke presence. Here, the inert becomes embodied, breathes life. From Ivory to Liver-Tone is a reflection on the possibility of inhabiting sculpture.