Cristina Iglesias

PHREATIC ZONES

Marian Goodman Gallery, London, UK

Phreatic Zones (2015) by Cristina Iglesias was exhibited at Marian Goodman Gallery in London. This installation comprises three recessed sculptures integrated into a custom-built slate floor—each measuring between approximately 125 × 215 × 200 cm and 530 × 99 × 251 cm—featuring cast aluminium root-like structures, stone, water, stainless steel, and hydraulic systems .

Using precision aluminium casting, hydraulic integration, and tailored flooring engineering, the work channels subterranean processes by exposing tangled, geological root forms submerged in circulating water. The choreography of flow and drainage mimics natural springs, transforming the gallery into a sensory landscape that blurs distinctions between architecture and nature.

Cristina Iglesias (born 1956, San Sebastiàn) is renowned for immersive, site-specific works merging industrial materials, water, and organic textures to redefine interior space. Phreatic Zones marks her first solo exhibition in London since 2003, reshaping the gallery via sculptural fountains embedded in the floor and stair-accessed side spaces, creating multi-tiered atmospheric environments.