Paula Garcia Sans is a visual artist born in Barcelona and based in Amsterdam, where they graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2020. With a background in 3D animation, worldbuilding and digital visual storytelling, Garcia Sans’ work navigates themes of politics and science fiction.

Their practice combines digital tools and sculpture, using materials such as stone, wax, 3D softwares and game engines to create installations and video works. Recently, they have approached hauntology not just as an abstract idea but as a material practice - using 3D technologies to resurrect past objects and ruins in different registers. They are particularly drawn to the eerie and the uncanny — sensations that arise when the boundaries between the organic and the virtual, the past and the future, become unstable.

Their current long-term project, Ethereal Estate, is grounded in the ruins of Sant Romà de Sau, a village submerged by the Spanish dictatorship in the 1960s to make way for a water reservoir, and exposed again during an extreme drought in 2023. Garcia Sans visited the site and 3D-scanned its remains, struck by the tension between what should have remained invisible, underwater, and what was then exposed. Through this work — which spans a video game and a series of sculptures — they explore hauntology and virtual architecture through an immersive lens.