“My practice begins in that threshold where past and present meet, where structures of power and ritual become intimate, and where materials speak of both heritage and possibility.”
Sandra Val (b. 1979, Tarragona, Spain) is an artist living and working in Madrid whose rigorous, conceptually driven practice explores the intersections of tradition, utopia and materiality. After graduating in Fine Arts and completing a Master in Research in Art & Creation at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, she has dedicated herself to crafting immersive constructs that hover between architecture, ritual and object.
Val’s work begins from a liminal space the point where past and present collide. Here she recombines architectural elements, everyday objects and historical references, generating new dialogues about time, space and identity. Using materials such as porcelain, glass, metal, textiles and ceramics, she traverses the boundary between what is recognisable and what is alien, crafting forms that feel both simultaneously familiar and disquieting.
Recurring in her work are the spectral echoes of spaces of power and worship churches, temples, shrines which she deconstructs and re‑assembles into poetic, non‑hierarchical environments. These environments invite contemplation of ritual, memory and transformation. Through her installations and sculptures, Val probes the mechanics of how we remember, how we imagine other worlds, and how material culture ties us across eras.
Her work has been shown across Spain, Portugal, Costa Rica, Venezuela, the United States, Austria and Switzerland, and forms part of institutions including the Museo de Bellas Artes de Gijón, the C.A.V. La Neomudéjar in Madrid and the Gyeonggi Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art in South Korea.
Sandra Val uses craftsmanship to awaken subtle worlds: rational and symbolic, temporal and eternal. Her sculptures and installations are portals into memory, into material narrative, into the possibility of other architectures of meaning.