Dislocated Dresser: Automata Workshop – Carlos Zapata
1 March @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Step into a world where the ordinary comes alive. Join internationally acclaimed artist Carlos Zapata for a free family-friendly workshop at Discovering42 during Flamm Festival. Families will transform recycled materials into imaginative moving automata, inspired by Carlos’s playful, surreal installation Dislocated Dresser. Create, experiment, and take home your own miniature marvel—or add it to a special festival display. A joyful celebration of creativity, reuse and community.
The workshop lasts 1.5 hours and will run at:
- 10am
- 12pm
- 2.30pm
All ages welcome, but children must be accompanied by adults. Limited places available, booking recommended.
Practicalities: The site is wheelchair accessible.
About the Artist
Carlos Zapata makes idiosyncratic carved and painted sculpture and installation. His work deals with many challenging and potent themes from poverty, conflict, religion and race, yet paradoxically, the overriding characteristics of the work are of empathy and compassion. Alongside this, Carlos has a long history of making automata, first in theatre settings, now often one-off commissions for private collectors, responding to personal experiences and requests, or for public institutions, drawing inspiration from the history or collection of the institution. In the last 28 years he been commission by museums, public spaces and private collectors in Europe, Asia and America.
