Samuel Krauss is a Brazilian artist based between Lisbon and São Paulo. His practice brings together drawing and sculpture to explore the tension between functionality and desire in everyday objects. Containers, tools, and wearables are reshaped in form, material, and scale, unsettling their familiar roles and opening them to new readings. Through a dialogue between industrial references and handcrafted techniques such as carving, casting, and papermaking, his works oscillate between utility and abstraction.

Krauss’s sculptures reveal the cultural and emotional weight embedded in utilitarian objects, especially those marked by movement, labor, and time. Hollowed, fragmented, or layered, they evoke states of transition—no longer bound to their original functions yet still charged with meaning. His ongoing body of work addresses the shifting relationship between material culture, industrial production, and manual intervention, treating objects as vessels of memory, carriers of experience, and sites of transformation.