NAMo
9. Kitchen Series
From Re-decostructing a fragmented memory of domestic objects
This series of acrylic paintings on canvas is a memory exercise dedicated to the objects that embody the Colombian domestic space.
The aluminum chocolatera used to make hot chocolate, the wooden molinillo (a multi-purpose whisk), the oddly patterned tiles in a grandmother’s kitchen, or the steel grill where arepas are cooked.
These are all part of a familiar domestic landscape. And yet, in their very typicity, they are often stored away, excluded, or hidden. Even in the kitchen, there is an aesthetic privilege in what is displayed: coffee pots, teapots, cups. In contrast, objects made of humble materials like iron or aluminum, used daily in many households, carrying intergenerational stories, with forms that are intriguing and beautiful, are excluded from their aesthetic potential.
In these paintings, the object is reimagined: its pieces decomposed and recomposed in new ways, studied for its organicity and geometry, and brought into the present moment, a suspension of imaginary time that seeks to recover memory.
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(Series in progress)