Elena Rocabert
Elena Rocabert

Transient Terrain

Madrid, Spain 2024

(50kg recycled aluminium)

0,9x4x10m

 

    For EvadeHouse, MBFW Madrid

    Photo by  Rebeca Sayago

    AD Creator's award

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The piece embodies the paradoxes of destruction and creation, desolation and shelter. Cast from 50 kilograms of recycled aluminum, this piece unfolds as a metal topography, where the surface mimics an alien landscape, both inviting and forbidding. It evokes lava, flowing and freezing in time to create a terrain that is at once a testament to fluidity and permanence. The choice of aluminum, a material born from the earth, then discarded only to be reborn in fire, speaks to cycles of consumption and rebirth. This landscape is not benign. It whispers tales of toxic infertility, of lands scarred by human touch, yet it also holds spaces of refuge— caves and crevices that offer shelter in the midst of desolation.

 

 

 

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Elena Rocabert
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Elena Rocabert
Elena Rocabert

Transient Terrain

Madrid, Spain 2024

(50kg recycled aluminium)

0,9x4x10m

 

    For EvadeHouse, MBFW Madrid

    Photo by  Rebeca Sayago

    AD Creator's award

    Publication AD creators

 

The piece embodies the paradoxes of destruction and creation, desolation and shelter. Cast from 50 kilograms of recycled aluminum, this piece unfolds as a metal topography, where the surface mimics an alien landscape, both inviting and forbidding. It evokes lava, flowing and freezing in time to create a terrain that is at once a testament to fluidity and permanence. The choice of aluminum, a material born from the earth, then discarded only to be reborn in fire, speaks to cycles of consumption and rebirth. This landscape is not benign. It whispers tales of toxic infertility, of lands scarred by human touch, yet it also holds spaces of refuge— caves and crevices that offer shelter in the midst of desolation.

 

 

 

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- Lilium White

- The Bird (lamp)

- The Lion  (Table)

- The Beast (Lamp)

- Evade House Runway FW24

- Transient Terrain

- Floating River

- Un Vago Recuerdo

- Evade House Re-Interpret FW23

- GALERÍA COMERCIAL

-SWANS

-UN AGUJERO EN MI JARDÍN

-ÁGUILA DE HIERRO

-FRECUENCY DEBRIS

-METAL CURRENT

 

 

 

 

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- Nude

- SOFT DREAMSCAPES

- Lilium Black

- Lilium White

- The Bird (lamp)

- The Lion  (Table)

- The Beast (Lamp)

- Evade House Runway FW24

- Transient Terrain

- Floating River

- Un Vago Recuerdo

- Evade House Re-Interpret FW23

- GALERÍA COMERCIAL

-SWANS

-UN AGUJERO EN MI JARDÍN

-ÁGUILA DE HIERRO

-FRECUENCY DEBRIS

-METAL CURRENT

 

 

 

 

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elena rocabert, architect & artist

Madrid, Spain

All rights reserved, 2024.

 

 

    Curriculum Vitae Uppon Request

    Instagram @elenarocabert

    E-mail elenarocabert@gmail.com

 

 

Elena Rocabert (Madrid) practices at the intersection of art and architecture. Her work, which takes form in painting, sculptural production and spatial intervention, centers on material experimentation to explore speculative fictions and cycles of transformation—rebirth, decay, and the tension between destruction and creation. Fiction, often tinged with dystopian undertones, serves as a critical tool in her practice, opening speculative paths for research and reflection. Rocabert’s work is grounded in a deep engagement with social ecologies and material experimentation, aiming to expose the unseen structures and layers embedded within space.

 

She holds a degree in Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (ETSAM) and the Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin). From 2021 to 2024, she was part of the curatorial team at Medialab in Matadero Madrid,  the artistic research labs LAB#01 Sentient Media, LAB#02 The Metabolic Sublime, and LAB#03 Synthetic Minds, exploring themes such as artificial intelligence, urban metabolism, and synthetic ecologies through contemporary art. In 2024, she collaborated with TBA21–Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary and the Museum of Altamira on an artistic research project focused on non-human temporalities and cultural landscapes.

 

She currently teaches in the “Experimentation” module of the Master’s in Textile Design and New Materials at IED Madrid, as well as in the course “Spatial Design.” Additionally, she serves as a guest juror in the course “Design, Analysis and Ideation” (DAI) at ETSAM.

 

She has completed artist residencies at Never At Home (Funkhaus, Vienna), GlogauAIR (Berlin), Pluto (Valencia), and Organismo (TBA21, Madrid). Her work has been exhibited at venues such as Funkhaus Vienna, Teatros del Canal, Madrid Design Festival, Mayrit Biennial, Sala de Arte Joven of the Community of Madrid, GlogauAIR Berlin, Casabanchel and Madrid Fashion Week, among others. 

 

In recognition of her practice, Rocabert was the winner of the first edition of the AD Creators Awards in 2024 and was a finalist in the COAM Awards 2025 in the category of ephemeral architecture

 

 

Spanish Embassy in Austria - Interview : Frequency Debris: Elena Rocabert’s dissection on Viennese Funkhaus

 

 

 

elena rocabert, architect & artist

Madrid, Spain

All rights reserved, 2024.

 

 

    Curriculum Vitae Uppon Request

    Instagram @elenarocabert

    E-mail elenarocabert@gmail.com

 

 

Elena Rocabert (Madrid) practices at the intersection of art and architecture. Her work, which takes form in painting, sculptural production and spatial intervention, centers on material experimentation to explore speculative fictions and cycles of transformation—rebirth, decay, and the tension between destruction and creation. Fiction, often tinged with dystopian undertones, serves as a critical tool in her practice, opening speculative paths for research and reflection. Rocabert’s work is grounded in a deep engagement with social ecologies and material experimentation, aiming to expose the unseen structures and layers embedded within space.

 

She holds a degree in Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (ETSAM) and the Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin). From 2021 to 2024, she was part of the curatorial team at Medialab in Matadero Madrid,  the artistic research labs LAB#01 Sentient Media, LAB#02 The Metabolic Sublime, and LAB#03 Synthetic Minds, exploring themes such as artificial intelligence, urban metabolism, and synthetic ecologies through contemporary art. In 2024, she collaborated with TBA21–Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary and the Museum of Altamira on an artistic research project focused on non-human temporalities and cultural landscapes.

 

She currently teaches in the “Experimentation” module of the Master’s in Textile Design and New Materials at IED Madrid, as well as in the course “Spatial Design.” Additionally, she serves as a guest juror in the course “Design, Analysis and Ideation” (DAI) at ETSAM.

 

She has completed artist residencies at Never At Home (Funkhaus, Vienna), GlogauAIR (Berlin), Pluto (Valencia), and Organismo (TBA21, Madrid). Her work has been exhibited at venues such as Funkhaus Vienna, Teatros del Canal, Madrid Design Festival, Mayrit Biennial, Sala de Arte Joven of the Community of Madrid, GlogauAIR Berlin, Casabanchel and Madrid Fashion Week, among others. 

 

In recognition of her practice, Rocabert was the winner of the first edition of the AD Creators Awards in 2024 and was a finalist in the COAM Awards 2025 in the category of ephemeral architecture

 

 

Spanish Embassy in Austria - Interview : Frequency Debris: Elena Rocabert’s dissection on Viennese Funkhaus

 

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