Opening
Maastricht
ArtInProgress, Issue 152
Sofía Salazar Rosales and Yoyo Balagué have been selected as the featured artists to exhibit their work for the opening of the Massimo Dutti store in Maastricht (Netherlands), as part of the Art in Progress project.
Sofía
Salazar
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SOFÍA SALAZAR ROSALES
“Parece un coral”
The Art in Progress project by Massimo Dutti was created with the mission to promote the creativity of contemporary artists from around the world. One of the latest collaborations features Ecuadorian artist Sofía Salazar Rosales at the Maastricht store in the Netherlands—a space that reinforces the brand’s new interior concept, where natural light and materials such as wood play a fundamental role.
Rosales
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MAASTRICH STORE
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Influenced by her Ecuadorian and Cuban heritage and shaped by her studies and residencies in Paris, Lyon, and Amsterdam, Salazar Rosales blends visual poetry with the sensitivity of dance. Her work explores concepts of absence and presence, highlighting in her sculptures the dynamic relationship between movement and stillness. Her method combines conceptual planning with material spontaneity, assembling objects into a frozen choreography.
Yoyo Balagué
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“Esferas”
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MAASTRICH STORE
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Yoyo Balagué creates pieces that express the language of the earth. Nature speaks through fractures, asymmetries, and the gentle erosion of time. Her Esferas embody gravity, transcendence, and universality. They are made from smoke-fired terracotta clay with coarse grog, and hand-built ceramics incorporating seaweed and driftwood. The clay itself tells a geological story—sandstone formed over many years beneath the surface of oceans, lakes, or rivers.
