Irene Abello was born in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1995. She graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2021. She lives in Paris and works in Bobigny (Le Wonder). She works from ephemeral natural phenomena, sometimes barely perceptible, which she treats as materials to be sculpted. Through minimal gestures, she crystallises the physical transformations of matter and transposes our perceptual experiences into installations, photographs and videos. Her works thus invite us to pay acute attention to the elusive variations of the real that manifest themselves in our everyday lives.
At a time when climate disruption is upending millions of lives and forcing entire populations into exile, the forces of nature are manifesting themselves with unprecedented intensity.