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Praxis


My practice spans sculpture, installation, drawing, and performance, investigating how transformations of matter activate spiral temporalities. Working with metal, glass, resin, and both industrial and organic materials, I engage processes such as welding, bending, casting, and tension to explore how shifts between material states—liquid, solid, reflective, or corroded—produce non-linear experiences 
of time in both form and perception.

This investigation originates in the demolition of the shed where I grew up in a favela in Santa Luzia (Minas Gerais, Brazil). This event shifted my focus from personal memory toward a broader inquiry into paradoxes such as construction and destruction, presence and disappearance, and the tension between weight and lightness. From this perspective, sculpture becomes a field in which matter mediates relations between time, body, and space.Influenced by technical knowledge acquired on the road with my father, a truck driver, I develop works through a structural, mechanical and interdependent logic in which each element both supports and tensions the others. Within this system, material transformations begin to disrupt linear perceptions of time.

My recent research approaches sculpture as a temporal instrument capable of producing simultaneous and non-linear experiences. Drawing on the concept of “spiral time” (Leda Maria Martins, 2021), I understand time as a dynamic field in which past, present, and future intertwine. Through actions upon matter—and the responses they generate—I create works that function as instruments of temporal condensation, activating shifting perceptions of duration, instability, and transformation.




Wel Soares is a queer Brazilian sculptor and visual artist, 
born in Santa Luzia, Minas Gerais, in 1996.

Currently living in Germany.




Metal, Forging, and Blown Glass Processes



Blown Glass, Resin and Molding Processes










About my process:
I used to mainly work in my bedroom, which I use as an atelier in my rented apartment in Belo Horizonte. My practice is divided between this space and my mother’s backyard in the favela in Santa Luzia, Brazil.

Now, besides these spaces my practice is extending to Germany where I currently live and study.

In these places, I work with materials such as metals (iron and aluminum), resin, glass, wood, and plaster. Each material brings different complexities to the process of creating a sculpture, and I value developing a deeply embodied relationship with them. The techniques I use are mainly related to metal melting and welding, molding processes, blown glass, glass sculpting, and expanded drawing practices, among others.

I like to think that matter carries memory and layers of time within it. Sometimes I spend long periods in the atelier creating rituals with materiality, involving repetition, the use of chemicals to alter the state of matter, or even giving materials baths to observe how they respond.








Me in my bedroom atelier, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 2025.








The bedroom sometimes becomes a pool.





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