Cecilia Lopez-Naughton
she/her
Intimate Architecture
My practice investigates the interplay of body, structure, and space, focusing on interior/exterior boundaries, the tension between nature and the built environment, and themes of restriction, de-construction and transformation.
Visually, I explore the contrast of visible/hidden and transformation through distortion. Informed by my architectural background, I consider how objects relate to the body in space—offering refuge, containment, or vulnerability. My work examines the interconnectedness and alienation of the body/nature, and imagined architecture and imagined bodies, using juxtaposed hard/soft and man-made/natural materials to explore these concepts.
3 Bodies, embroidered buckram, on stitched cardboard bodice, packaging, stitched and dyed fibre paper, clay paint, graphite, 500 x 600 x 450 x 200 cm.
Chimneys, stitched cardboard, cardboard cones, clay paint, 500 x 550 x 500 cm.
Autumn, plaster bamboo, dried plants, walnut ink, 500 x 600 x 200 cm
Window, plaster, packaging card, stitching, wood dowels, 450 x 600 x 200 cm.
Distillery Lady studies.
Studies and Collage of Lace and Skyline, walnut and quebracho ink on card packaging, printed and folded velum, graphite
Research
Studio desktop.
Skyline and lace studies, heat transfer to polycotton and silk polyester, various sizes.
Cardboard texture studies, various sizes and thickness.
Deconstructing the body, paper, vilene, bamboo, box packaging.
Studio workspace.