House(s): Meetings, wounds, and refuges

Abstract

Abstract: Meetings, wounds, and refuges represent three ways to signify the house through the artistic practice, showcasing diverse problematics which are crossed by affections and inhabiting the mundane, erasing  the frontier between the public and private, the domestic and the artistic. In this regard, and in parallel, this text examines: the search of 'the home', related to migratory experiences in Wilkellys Pirela's piece, Embarcación del territorio (Territory's Ship, 2018-2021); the collapse of housing, as a reflection of a system that turns away and nullifies housekeeping, through Serlit Jamett's series, Modo Doméstico (Domestic Way, 2022); and finally, the configuration of a space which embarks the convergence between art and life through the project ,comma (house, 2022-), managed by Dominga del Campo, Elisita Balbontín, Daniela Hermosillo, and Jan Vormann.