madre in cucina
installation, red carpet, cutlery, cermaics, alluminum foil, diet coke cans, cookies, vintage cookie jar, alluminum ladles, alluminum sculptures , plastic waste, ‘Finding Place’ Group exhibition Crawley UK, 2024
installation, red carpet, cutlery, cermaics, alluminum foil, diet coke cans, cookies, vintage cookie jar, alluminum ladles, alluminum sculptures , plastic waste, ‘Finding Place’ Group exhibition Crawley UK, 2024
The artwork portrays a haunting scene of a mother’s silent suffering as her body overflows a kitchen, symbolising years of self-sacrifice and a painful, unreciprocated nurturing. It explores themes of generational exhaustion and unfulfilled desires, where the act of consumption becomes a metaphor for both physical and emotional scars that come not from nourishment, but from a toxic cycle of giving and receiving without true sustenance.
She lies there and doesn't move. Her broken, sick body floods the kitchen. You walk between her wounds and count the stitches. Everything is prepared. Food, drinks, knives, forks and spoons. She lies there and doesn’t move. The mother, sick of giving and the daughter, sick of receiving. It’s that cold meal that you have to take home and you’re not going to eat. A rotten bag of a to-go lunch. The scars come from consuming. Consuming ourselves, not from what we want, what we need, what we’re offered.