Daniel Steegmann Mangrané Mask, 2024

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané's series entitled Masks consists of individual modified leaves. On each dried camboatã leaf, a geometric shape has been reproduced in gold leaf. The shapes include a circle, triangular sections and elliptical lines.

Formally, the artist's delicate sculptural works, made of modified organic material or resembling organic objects such as bark, leaves and twigs, explore the emergence and migration of forms between different formal registers in nature, art and architecture. The organic materials are paired with classical geometric shapes associated with human-made forms and, in a broader sense, with human systems of knowledge such as geometry and mathematics.