Canoa Lab. is a collaborative studio shaped by the practices of Raquel Vidal and Pedro Paz, whose shared work is grounded in long-term artistic research and a deep engagement with material culture. Coming from two distant regions of Spain—Galicia and Almería—their encounter brought together parallel trajectories rooted in painting, sculpture, and image-based practices. Together, they have developed a body of work that continuously reflects on the relationship between space, time, and the role of objects in shaping human experience.

Metal and clay occupy a central position in their research, valued both for their material qualities and their historical significance. Essential to human civilization for storing, preserving, serving, and signifying identity, these materials offered a natural extension of their artistic inquiry into object design. Through Canoa Lab., the workshop becomes a space for slower, more attentive processes—dedicated to experimentation, exchange, and a more direct dialogue with people, removed from external pressures.

Their methodology unfolds as a rhizomatic process rather than a linear one. Drawing, archival research, observation, and hands-on experimentation with glazes, beeswax casting, and hybrid material forms occur alongside the making of objects. Thinking and building advance simultaneously, without a defined beginning or end. Approaching their practice almost archaeologically, Raquel Vidal and Pedro Paz gather fragments, traces, and processes to construct a living cartography—one open to constant rereading and reinterpretation.