INÉS FIGAREDO

We inhabit an image, the home of memory. That first shelter…

The conflict that arises from recording, organizing, and processing the various daily domestic events

—born from the internal relationships of those who share the same common space—

creates a need for reflection and detachment.

Thus, a sort of ethnographic study of the family emerges, shaped by its particular environmental characteristics

but delving into universal questions that ultimately transcend any physical or geographical boundary.

The domestic, therefore, becomes vital and existential. The process of constructing one’s own identity;

the gaze of the other that names us, otherness, authority, inheritance or lineage as a reference

(or the absence thereof), the fragmentation of memory or recognition, social constructs, the emptiness

in the kitchen as abandonment… This is the mortar that cement the lines drawing the shape of home.

For all these reasons, the concepts of container and content are used as a narrative thread,

renaming everything that has been or is named without record.

The natal home is kept in the voice.