Domestic Problems
2024, 7 porcelain and ceramic plates, synthetic hair, variable dimensions.
The Fragility of the Home
2024, boxing pear, tray, wooden stand, and porcelain plate, 60 x 25 x 25 cm.
The pieces are part of an investigation into the performativity of objects, where the conjunction of the elements acquires a new meaning. Without altering the ontological sense of each one, a new dimension is established in their tension and contradiction that constructs a concept. A new discourse is articulated, tensioned in the coexistence of both.
The dialectic that occurs between the boxing pear and the domestic plate refers us to domestic violence, imbuing the objects with a new symbolism. On the other hand, the boxing object indicates a concrete action associated with our body and the desire for execution. The work puts the viewer in a difficult position. The first reaction it provokes is the desire to hit, but it seems that such a gesture would imply a larger problem. The object proposes an initiative that we think we cannot or should not address. In this way, this work also behaves as a piece of desire, since it incites a specific action, positioning the viewer as a potential actor (beyond mere observation) within the proposed performative act. The performativity of objects goes beyond stating, describing, or asserting; it proposes an action, an exercise of execution, movement, and action.
Considering the second image (Domestic Problems), where a large strand of hair emerges directly from a plate of food, a relationship associated with the absurd and intrigue is established. The objects vary according to the space and their interaction, and art as practice has the power (and the purpose) to articulate concepts in multiple interactions. Here, the repugnant nature of hair on the plate of food—an immediate reaction—shifts to other interpretations, tensioning the elements, imbuing them with aesthetic qualities and new dialectical possibilities.
Born in 1971, Chile. He is a Social Communicator with a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts from Finis Terrae University and a diploma in Art Anthropology from LATIR, Mexico.
His work was exhibited in 2017 at the National Museum of Fine Arts. In 2013, he was part of the exhibition “Puro Chile: Landscape and Territory” at the Cultural Center Palacio La Moneda and the 20th anniversary of Matucana 100, among other collective exhibitions both in Chile and abroad.
He has received scholarships on four occasions from the Ministry of Culture and Arts, and his works are part of the Luciano Benetton collection, Windsor & Newton, Compañía de Cervecerías Unidas (CCU), the MAM of Chiloé, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, Ca.Sa Collection, University of Talca, Antonio Miraldi collection, and multiple private collections.
