Floor is lava. Laura Mas Comas

An installation-based, performative, and sculptural proposal to play “the floor is lava.” The game consists of moving across the elevated surfaces found within a space, while avoiding touching the ground with one’s feet. The fear that arises at the possibility of falling to the ground can only be eased by seeking balance on the elevated sculptural devices arranged in the room, which function as “lifelines.” These “lifelines,” however, sway, are fragile, slippery, or completely firm; their stability depends entirely on the person who leans on them.

Laura Mas Comas (Sabadell, 2002) is a sculptor and performer who graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona. She considers her practice an attempt at walking. Through the alteration of everyday objects, she frees them from their functionality in order to construct others that allow for a questioning of the body’s possibilities. The gesture reflects a will toward progress that takes shape in walking, climbing, or finding balance, and finds satisfaction only in the difficulty of the attempt.
She was an artist-in-residence in visual arts at L’Estruch as part of the Art Emergent Sabadell 2025 award. Recently, she has performed at La Capella within the framework of Artefacte, in the exhibition “Amb Títol,” organized by alumni of the Faculty of Fine Arts together with E3000, and in “Promotion for the Promotion 21.”