Workshop Ex-Voto

2-tägiger Workshop: Herstellung von Mini-Skulpturen mit Ton, Silikon und Paraffin mit Ana de Almeida & Valeria Pechena

Inspired by the artists’ collaborative practice of care and making, this workshop invites you to work with the processes of the Ex-Voto — a small wax object meant to carry, transform and release anxiety, pain, hope, longing. Ana de Almeida and Valeria Pechena translate this tradition into a contemporary sculptural language: paraffin forms that hover between body fragment and abstract shape, each one holding a personal and collective charge.

In this workshop, you are invited to bring your own experiences — of care, displacement, memory, or desire — and to shape them into a small amulet or Ex-Voto of your own. Working with simple materials and guided by the artists’ process, you will explore how an object can hold what is difficult to say, and what it means to ritually make, carry, and perhaps release it.

Attending both days is encouraged, but each day also stands on its own. All levels of experience are welcome. The workshop is open to participants aged 16 to 99.

Registration until 7 May: info@philomena.plus
Kuratiert von/Curated by Barbara Mahlknecht
Gefördert von/funded by Shift Basis Kultur Wien