Cecília Lima
Heavy Objects
2024 - 2025
Series
Sculptures
Cardboard, zinc, stainless steel, sandpaper, brass, aluminum, elastic, and wood
Composition with 21 elements, overall dimensions dependent on the exhibition space
Largest element dimensions 100 × 13.5 × 19 cm

A series of sculptures made from cardboard, zinc, brass, stainless steel, sandpaper, aluminum, wood, and other various materials. Starting with the flaps and parts of cardboard boxes, the sculptures emerge from the repetition of the same shape, generating geometric volumes combined with elements of civil construction and everyday life. Cardboard boxes, previously used to transport consumer goods and quickly discarded, become the base for creating sculptures—small architectures that move between imprecision, irregularity, and modular form. These objects are made of a material so common in our daily lives that it becomes trivial, disposable, and almost invisible. Pieces designed for transportation and storage, whose useful life is limited to movement and rest until the boxes are opened and thrown away. "Heavy Objects" thus arises from the manipulation of a material from the industrial process, acquiring a new dimension through manual work, where the accumulation, previously linked to consumption and waste, is used to create pieces that balance weight and lightness, between the fragility of cardboard and the strength of metals such as zinc, stainless steel, and brass.