Moving Metals
Chloé Hajjar

On Wednesday, April 9th, we opened the ´ace studio to share the processes and the results of 4 weeks of intense work from our residents. During this event, Chloé Hajjar exhibited her installation Moving Metals, comprised of different sculptural objects built on copper. As part of her residency and her time in Buenos Aires, Chloé spent many hours dancing tango and roaming the city, finding inspiration in its music, its people, and its rhythm. This was translated onto her pieces, which she built using copper plates that she worked on tirelessly. The result was an installation on the wall of the Dialogue Space that followed a certain rhythm and a kind of movement resembling those of tango.

This work, in her own words, “emerged in response to the time I spent dancing tango in Buenos Aires. Drawing on ancient metalworking techniques, a connection is formed between materiality and movement. A reflection on how rhythmic exchanges persist even in stillness. The copper surface reveals gestures not through movement itself, but through the interaction of light and form.”