Image creditDetail Photo Unknown artist, (Blanca Sánchez, reflected in a mirror, applying eye make-up) ca. 1975
At a glance
30–45 minutes
Handmade knowledge becomes contemporary art through materials, gestures and forms that resist industrial speed.
Why go
A quieter Reina Sofía exhibition centred on making itself — useful for understanding contemporary interest in craft, embodied knowledge and material processes.
You'll see
Material experimentation · Handmade processes · Objects · Craft · Contemporary installation
Pace of visit
Medium-low density. Best for slow looking rather than quick highlights.
Don't miss
Details that reveal the hand of the maker rather than polished finished surfaces.
Artlovers Tip
Focus on how things were made, not just what they look like.
Inside the exhibition
Meet the artist
Blanca Sánchez
Description
The exhibition foregrounds making as a way of thinking. Materials and gestures retain evidence of labour, repetition and touch, resisting the anonymity of industrial production. It belongs to a wider contemporary revaluation of craft knowledge inside art institutions.
Blanca Sánchez works across material and process-based practices, focusing on embodied knowledge and the meanings carried by acts of making.
Exhibition
Blanca Sánchez — Leche, nieve, lágrima, mano. El saber hacer
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