APÁ / Thesis

Made by human hands.
Not hiding them.

We spend our lives pursuing perfection.
Correcting irregularities.
Concealing flaws.
Removing the evidence of how something came to exist.

APÁ moves in the opposite direction.

We believe the hand should remain visible:
The decisions.
The mistakes.
The corrections.
The material.
The process.

Not everything needs to agree.
Not everything needs to be resolved.

What is usually concealed becomes evidence.
What is usually corrected becomes character.

Nothing human is perfect.
APÁ shouldn’t pretend to be.

Family archive / inherited language

From hands.

From APÁ / Archivo 001

Archival photograph of the artist's father working with his hands.

SOMOS ARQUITECTOS
DE NUESTRO DESTINO.

— APÁ

We are the architects
of our own destiny.

From AMÁ / Archivo 003

Archival photograph of the artist's mother.

TIENES QUE SER
CALCULOSO.

— AMÁ

You have to
be calculated.

From hands.

HACER LAS COSAS BIEN,
SIN APURARSE.

Doing things right,
without rushing.

For the people you love.

APÁ is not one material or one discipline. It is a way of making.
FROM TWENTYS /
FROM ROOTS /
FROM HANDS /
FROM BEANS.
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