El arte de las prácticas cotidianas en mi hogar

Abstract

This creative research project aims to explore the possibilities of artistic drawing in terms of its capacities for representation, illustration, imagination, and recording of human activities, in this case, those taking place within the home of the artist/researcher. Drawing serves as the research vehicle through which observation (and attention to the details that define each person and object in particular) allowed for a journey through, review, retouching, and redrawing of the family history, a community that - in this particular case - is made up of women (grandmother, daughters, mothers, granddaughters). Likewise, as a meeting place for drawing, the artist and her family chose the heart of the large maternal house: the kitchen. This place was identified as the domestic space in which, in addition to spending most of their time, practices, conversations, dilemmas, and debates about the role of women inside and outside the home arise through generational changes and in the midst of the different professional and human exercises that the women of this home develop. In turn, drawing is the endpoint, as the understanding of this language in its multiple expressive and representative possibilities, as well as the reflections recorded here and the resulting artwork, account for the explorations and provocations of drawing to continue a path that extends infinitely into its own possibilities.