WMG’s Project Space is a new initiative dedicated to experimentation, process, and dialogue. Unlike formal gallery shows, the Project Space invites artists to share unfinished ideas, evolving works, and interactive components that encourage visitor participation. It is a place where art is not only seen but also experienced as a living conversation between artist and audience.
We launched this new program with an installation by Chicago artist PōCHIS, whose exhibition MY LISAS explores the exhilaration, fragility, and lingering impact of coming-of-age friendships. Our second Project Space artist is Sofía Fernández Díaz,
Sofía Fernández Díaz: Material Practice | October 11–November 8, 2025
The work featured in this exhibition explores the series of ideas, materials, and objects that inform Sofía Fernández Díaz’s studio practice. Their non-linear presentation puts forward the artist’s context of making and allows for viewers to explore otherwise unseen processes, inspirations, and connections.
BODIES OF WORK:
Membranas What is skin? A translucent membrane, a barrier, a protection? Or perhaps a porous territory, where inside and outside cross? A living frontier that feels, breathes, remembers.
Cachivaches This series emerges as an evolution of Patitas. The wax no longer simply supports the objects—it becomes part of their very structure.
Umbral Paper absorbs natural inks, creating landscapes through the passage of time: stratifying and the layering of memory. The use of beeswax preserves and transforms, revealing the tension between permanence and impermanence.
Azul embodies a paradox of creation from decay. Oxidation is a source of beauty, and renewal. This transformation mirrors cycles of life, where loss becomes a foundation for new beginnings.
Patitas is an ongoing series focusing on found decaying objects. Mystified by their unknown narratives told through their patinas/colors/textures, I give them a new existence through play. The beauty of each object’s deterioration heightens awareness of their environments, refreshing my curiosity about how they arrived and how I might interpret those origins.
WORK-IN-PROGRESS
In this exhibition, Sofía Fernández Díaz shares source objects, material explorations, and works significant to her practice. Like conceptual touchstones, these disparate objects and materials highlight undercurrents of her making.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Sofïa’s practice explores the relationships between materiality, memory, and environment. Through an intuitive approach that blends traditional and contemporary techniques, she investigates the hidden connections between organic and industrial processes, working with fibers, natural dyes, beeswax, and found materials to create tactile narratives of transformation and decay.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Sofía Fernández Díaz is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator from Mexico City. Her experimental, process-centric practice combines meditative labor, repetition and intuition with traditional fiber and craft techniques she has learned through living and working alongside artisans from across Mexico.
© Sofía Fernández Díaz