Irene Molina
Irene Molina was born in Spain, but you’d think she was born in two worlds at once — the one you touch and the one you scroll through.
Her art glitches, shifts, and asks you to reconsider where your body ends and the screen begins. Molina’s work builds bridges between 3D and steel, photogrammetry and welding, the real and the imagined. These connections seem invisible until they become the only way forward.
Her creations feel like they belong to a parallel reality — a place where digital and physical quietly merge. Each piece carries a memory of its virtual origins yet exists as something entirely tangible. It’s as though the objects have traveled through dimensions, bringing fragments of the digital with them.
Molina’s process speaks the language of machines. Using 3D scanning and printing, she maps and replicates reality, yet it’s the ruptures — glitches and textures of misplaced pixels — that bring her work to life. These forms move through a fluid space where the virtual and material dissolve, reimagining boundaries. A world where objects hold the weight of ideas, and imagination shapes reality.
Molina calls her sculptures 'archaeologies of the imaginary' — objects that feel excavated from lost digital terrain and rebuilt by hand. She doesn’t smooth out the digital residue. Compressed textures, warped scans, and rendering faults remain, not as noise but as structure. Her forms blend photogrammetry with welding, linework with hardware, allowing moments of fracture to hold shape.
