Queering materiality and language, Pablo Vindel reimagines presence, absence, and belonging—crafting spaces of and for transformation.
Mouth(s) unfolds as a visceral exploration of intimacy, desire, and loss through the raw encounter between body and glass. Sculpted from yearning and pain, these glass forms embody displaced bodies—detached from the self. Cast through repeated bites and impressions, the soft and hard tissues of the mouth are etched into the glass, teetering on the verge of suffocation. Mouth(s) take on small, hollow forms—sealed, yet fragile—heightening the tension between presence and absence through the coming together of condensation and impenetrability.
As words rise from the emptiness of the mouth, they shift from object to subject—from the body’s consumption of the world to its expression of longing. This transition mirrors the body’s instinct to conquer negative space, shaping absence into meaning. In this intimate exchange, the mouth absorbs, internalizes, and transforms the Other—not just as an external presence, but as an extension of the self. Its language becomes one of communion and collision—a push-and-pull between unity and separation, where the corporeal and immaterial converge. Teeth, gums, and throat become the syntax of this language. The mouth—insatiable, ever-remaking itself—embodies the perpetual cycle of desire and the limits of its expression.