Amparo Sard – I Thought I Could Change the World

Amparo Sard presents a series of artworks ranging from works on paper and sculptures to the world’s first haptic NFT. United by her unique aesthetic sensibility, the works are delicate and poetic while being deeply and profoundly connected to human emotion.

Since the beginning of her career, the artist has been immersed in constant research across diverse fields such as mathematics, physics, music, and philosophy. Her work is multidisciplinary—at once delicate and beautiful, yet also obsessive and disturbing. She explores space and materials, particularly through her perforated white paper works, with which she began her artistic career and which have become her personal visual language. The fragility of the material resembles human skin, creating relief through punctures. In a subtle way, these artworks transform a normally two-dimensional material such as paper into a three-dimensional object by forming images through small protrusions that emerge from the surface—not through colour or line, but through shadow and light created by conical paper forms.

According to the artist, “today, feeling is the emergency” in order to give greater truth to any narrative. Sard is engaged in an ongoing investigation of the human condition—and of the artist as an individual who understands emotions and uses them to transmit her vision.

I Thought I Could Change the World reflects an awareness of how our social and environmental reactions have evolved within our own environment and context—where reality, fiction, truth, and post-truth have become confused in an unfathomable drift. Beneath the social activism to which the artist is committed, her work has a conceptual foundation that investigates the functioning of human consciousness and the image, analysing how images manage to transcend in the age of technology and fake news.

Amparo Sard has never been afraid to explore different materials, including resin paints, polyurethane, video, and more recently recycled plastic—also engaging with environmental conservation and raising awareness about planetary responsibility. She also explores the newest form of digital artistic expression: NFTs. In this exhibition, we present her second haptic NFT, entitled Matar al Artista (Kill the Artist).

Amparo Sard (born 1973, Mallorca) lives and works between Mallorca and Barcelona. She has been a professor and Doctor of Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona for 20 years and is Head of Studies at the New University of Fine Arts ADEMA of the Balearic Islands. She received her MFA in Media Studies from The New School University, New York.

Among many distinctions, she has received the Deutsche Bank International Award in Berlin and the Gold Medal of the Italian Government for her artistic career. She was selected as one of the 25 best artists in the world in 2018 on the LXRY List (Holland) and received the DM Culture Award in 2022. She has held solo exhibitions at numerous national and international museums, including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome, Conde Duque in Madrid, and Tenerife Espacio de las Artes. Her works are included in renowned art collections.