The practice of Daniel Steegmann Mangrané (b. 1977 in Barcelona) encompasses a wide range of media, including film, sculpture, sound, gardens and drawing. His work focuses on the creation and migration of forms between nature, art and architecture.
⊂⊃ is part of Steegmann Mangrané’s ongoing series of colored aluminum works. Widely used in Spain, Kriska curtains can function as flexible screens for entryways. They are light, often brightly colored and make a characteristic metallic sound when the chains touch.
Conceived for the 2018 group exhibition Space Shifters at the Hayward Gallery, London, the work was conceived in dialogue with the architectural properties of the site: the elliptical shape of the curtains echo those of the Hayward Gallery building's distinctive concrete staircase with its massive round landings.
Oscillating between appearing as diaphanous screens and semi-solid objects, the curtains are both indications of a transition (meant to be traversed, marking the end of one space and the beginning of the next) as well as sculptural objects, existing in a hybrid state between corporeality and immateriality.