2022 (M)OTHER AND ANOTHER. Galería Juan Silió. Madrid

General view "(M)OTHER AND ANOTHER". Juan Silió Gallery. Photo: Roberto Ruiz
(M)OTHER AND ANOTHER is a verb. I understand this exhibition as a physical movement - a step forward - after having lived through the pandemic experience of family confinement at home. It is a statement on the relationship between my artistic practice and my domestic work. I decide to break down the wall that separates them and establish an almost therapeutic reconciliation that leads me to new working processes such as ceramics and a graphic register based on the aesthetics of weekly shopping receipts.
As I believe Jon Mikel Euba once said, ‘an artist is someone who does what he can with what he has’. This is how my artistic practice has adapted to my context. I began to establish points of attention on behaviours and processes within the domestic context, such as dust settlements, cleaning rituals, weekly shopping, economy, food, living spaces, etc., which are mostly materialities neglected in the field of culture. Working from a reappropriation of the condition of mother and the indivisible duality that involves exercising the artistic practice while at the same time attending to the educational, caring and training work of new human beings. This exhibition gathers the functional aesthetics that surrounds my daily work, elaborating a body of work that is a fusion of my vital experience without being able to stop being an artist, a mother or a housewife at the same time.

The unspeakable instalation I, 2022. Glazed ceramic and welded iron, 35x200x30cm.

The unspeakable instalation II, 2022. Glazed ceramic and welded iron, 24x100x40cm.

The unspeakable, 2022. Glazed ceramic, 20x26x33cm.

General view "(M)OTHER AND ANOTHER". Juan Silió Gallery. Photo: Roberto Ruiz

Elementary layers, 2022. Watercolor on 300gr paper, framed in methacrylate, 30x40cm.

Elementary layers, 2022. Watercolor on 300gr paper, framed in methacrylate, 30x40cm.

Elementary layers, 2022. Watercolor on 300gr paper, framed in methacrylate, 30x40cm.

Elementary layers, 2022. Watercolor on 300gr paper, framed in methacrylate, 30x40cm.

General view "(M)OTHER AND ANOTHER". Juan Silió Gallery. Photo: Roberto Ruiz

Body. Pelvis, 2022. Glazed ceramic and welded iron structure, 60x35x15cm.

Cuello de un tiempo interrumpido, 2022. Ceramic and welded iron structure, 55x47x17cm.

Book of Mutter series (14), 2022. Digital print on paper, 100x70cm.


Book of Mutter series (13), 2022. Digital print on paper, 100x70cm. Detail.



Poem of the whole body, 2022. Ceramic and welded iron structure, 200x150x35cm.

(M)other and another, 2022. Glazed ceramic, iron and welded iron structure, 20x33x30cm.

The unspeakable instalation II, 2022. Detail.

The unspeakable, 2022. Glazed ceramic, 15x28x25cm.

Ejercicio de pulgar I, 2022. Glazed ceramic and welded iron structure, 62x70x50cm.

Ejercicio de codo II, 2022. Ceramic, 25x40x14cm.

Ejercicio de codo I, 2022. Ceramic, 25x27x8cm.

Ejercicio de pulgar I, 2022. Detail.