PASTIEDITIONS INTERVIEWS
ARTISTS
CAPITÃO ARTIST RESIDENCY
6-20 OCTOBER 2025
Ángela Jiménez Durán
Camila Sagyntkan
Radu-Mihai Măldărescu
Ángela Jiménez Durán (1996, Madrid, ES) lives in Paris and works at POUSH.
Ángela Jiménez Durán’s practice unfolds through sculpture and installation, constructing discontinuous narratives where materiality and fabulation intertwine. Her work evokes a persistent sense of strangeness, oscillating between geological, biological, and technological imaginaries, and questioning how alternative modes of existence might be perceived or inhabited.
She has presented solo exhibitions including Encuentro at Sagrada Mercancía, Santiago (2025), Fog in Los Angeles at 18th Street Arts Center, Los Angeles (2025), and Entre dos Luces at Picnic, Madrid (2024), among others. Her work has also been widely exhibited internationally in institutions and spaces such as Kunsthalle Trier, Château La Coste, La Casa Encendida, and POUSH.
In 2023, she received the Art Éco-Conception Prize (Art of Change 21 x Palais de Tokyo), and in 2025 she was awarded the Call to Dream Fellowship by the Sam Francis Foundation for a residency at 18th Street Arts Center in Los Angeles.
Ángela Jiménez Durán’s practice unfolds through sculpture and installation, constructing discontinuous narratives where materiality and fabulation intertwine. Her work evokes a persistent sense of strangeness, oscillating between geological, biological, and technological imaginaries, and questioning how alternative modes of existence might be perceived or inhabited.
She has presented solo exhibitions including Encuentro at Sagrada Mercancía, Santiago (2025), Fog in Los Angeles at 18th Street Arts Center, Los Angeles (2025), and Entre dos Luces at Picnic, Madrid (2024), among others. Her work has also been widely exhibited internationally in institutions and spaces such as Kunsthalle Trier, Château La Coste, La Casa Encendida, and POUSH.
In 2023, she received the Art Éco-Conception Prize (Art of Change 21 x Palais de Tokyo), and in 2025 she was awarded the Call to Dream Fellowship by the Sam Francis Foundation for a residency at 18th Street Arts Center in Los Angeles.
Camila Sagyntkan is a director and producer from Almaty, Kazakhstan. She holds a law degree, a background that sharpened her perspective on justice, responsibility, and human stories before she turned to filmmaking. She has been working in the film industry for seven years, with experience in more than a hundred projects as a 1AD, producer, and script supervisor.
Her directorial and screenwriting debut, Happy Independence Day, was shortlisted for the Sundance Institute Ignite x Adobe program in 2023. The film received several awards and was screened at international festivals, including the Cleveland International Film Festival, Go East Film Festival, and the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. In 2025, it was released online through Short of the Week.
Camila is a resident of BaseCamp ’25 at the Locarno Film Festivall, a selected participant in the Qyzqaras Critic Lab ’25 in Kazakhstan, and the Script LAB CA ’25 in Kyrgyzstan. She is currently promoting her second short film, What Have You Done, Zarina?, and developing new projects, including her first feature film.
Her directorial and screenwriting debut, Happy Independence Day, was shortlisted for the Sundance Institute Ignite x Adobe program in 2023. The film received several awards and was screened at international festivals, including the Cleveland International Film Festival, Go East Film Festival, and the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. In 2025, it was released online through Short of the Week.
Camila is a resident of BaseCamp ’25 at the Locarno Film Festivall, a selected participant in the Qyzqaras Critic Lab ’25 in Kazakhstan, and the Script LAB CA ’25 in Kyrgyzstan. She is currently promoting her second short film, What Have You Done, Zarina?, and developing new projects, including her first feature film.
Helena Estrela is an artist, educator, and cultural organizer living and working in the interior of Portugal, in a small village between two mountains. She spent the last years pushing her fingers into the dirt, talking to plants, and writing about it with muddy hands.
Her practice spans multiple media, including writing, sculpture, film, sound, and printed formats. Her latest work is grounded in conversations with her neighbours and reflects on agricultural knowledge and land politics through the failures and joys of growing cabbages.
Helena, together with Christopher Ruiz and Cristiana Cruz Forte, co-runs Casa Estrela, a non-profit cultural organization dedicated to cooperative learning and cultural accessibility in rural and low-density areas. Nowadays, she is a weaver and gardener apprentice, and is editing a recipe book with the work of her student
Her practice spans multiple media, including writing, sculpture, film, sound, and printed formats. Her latest work is grounded in conversations with her neighbours and reflects on agricultural knowledge and land politics through the failures and joys of growing cabbages.
Helena, together with Christopher Ruiz and Cristiana Cruz Forte, co-runs Casa Estrela, a non-profit cultural organization dedicated to cooperative learning and cultural accessibility in rural and low-density areas. Nowadays, she is a weaver and gardener apprentice, and is editing a recipe book with the work of her student
Radu-Mihai Măldărescu (b. 1999) is an architect trained at the University of Architecture and Urbanism “Ion Mincu” from Bucharest, where he currently works as a researcher and teaching assistant within the same institution. Ever since he graduated in 2024, his practice has taken on a more practical aspect, attempting to intertwine the theoretical knowledge acquired during his academic years with a manual approach towards the built environment.
During his artistic development, place-making became the most natural way for him to express his ideas, resulting in a series of in situ installations and sculptures that entwine with the daily patterns of their surroundings. Through these inanimate objects, he seeks to preserve and uphold the mnemonic qualities of the spaces they inhabit.
During his artistic development, place-making became the most natural way for him to express his ideas, resulting in a series of in situ installations and sculptures that entwine with the daily patterns of their surroundings. Through these inanimate objects, he seeks to preserve and uphold the mnemonic qualities of the spaces they inhabit.
CAPITÃO ARTIST RESIDENCY
6-20 OCTOBER 2025