We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Fernando Adam. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Fernando below.

Fernando, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Let’s kick things off with your mission – what is it and what’s the story behind why it’s your mission?

More than a mission, it is an attitude, a need to create and recreate, to work with my hands an soul , and build pictorial spaces, furniture, objects, etc .
All of this as a poetic act to create a language, a form of communication
Art is an Universal Lenguage ,and so I try to speak whit it

Fernando, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

I was born on a January 1 st after a car crash, which
entailed an abrupt departure from my first home.
Such an early coming into the world determined my
own way of being and of inhabiting spaces. So did
the house in which I grew up alongside my seven
siblings in Caracas. It was a hybrid space where the
constructive elements of my father’s Germanic
tradition singularly combined with my mother’s
Venezuelan-criolla heritage.
Our family life revolved around an enclosed and
inward-looking patio. From there, contact with outer
world reduced to the vertical landscape of the sky
framed by the four eaves of the roof. The rooms
followed each other along the corridor, and their
occupation had to rearrange with the arrival of every
new son or daughter. Only the main bedroom
remained permanent in that house.
However, the home that nurtures my creative
practice is the one built in El Hatillo, Caracas,
together with Carola, architect and partner. In such a
four-hand project, the sense of permanence

addressed the design and build of every space,
beam, door and framing of the views. The
circumstances traced a different destination, a
temporary relocation to Barcelona that became
indefinite in the uncertain and unstable times we are
living in. The house remained unfinished and,
despite the many attempts to come back, we hardly
inhabit it.
My artistic work, in its different expressive formats,
seeks to transcend the feelings of detachment and
loss exile involves. TEMPORARY ROOM is an
exercise of transient occupation –from an intimate
and personal perspective– to inquire new modes of
global and contemporary inhabitation. It is a proposal
that transforms, re-signifies itself, as it occupies new
spaces, from an essential dialogue between art and
architecture.

Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?

Maybe we should forget about the self and connect to something more Universal, more empathetic with the world around us. Unlearn what we have learned through the ego

Can you tell us about a time you’ve had to pivot?

When I came to live in Barcelona I made the decision to dedicate myself to Painting, after having worked in Graphic Design, then designing and building Furniture. The painting collected all this experience when it was translated onto the canvas,

Contact Info:

• Instagram: @adamfernando_art