El pan de leche espera por ti

El pan de leche espera por ti (Milk bread waits for you) is the title of this piece in which clay and baskets come together. The maras or trays to present the bread found in the island’s bakeries and made by local weavers with various types of fiber are the protagonists or central object of the work. The artist creates a type of curtain, tapestry or hanging blind from the appropriation of those black and white tin liana trays made of, guaraguao, cuchape, copey grooves, cuchivanos, palos de madrina, etc. which, joined with traditional clay handles or settings made by Sosa López, result in a work that occupies or takes over the space and that can be walked around and surrounded by the viewer. Once again, repetition is the mechanism to create a composition with contemporary echoes in which the configuration of the piece is not intervened, but its original function is transmuted.

Text written and curated by Patricia Velasco Barbieri

Exhibition in La Hacienda la Trinidad Parque Cultural, Caracas. 2024

Project in collaboration with ArtesanoGroup and the artisans from Nueva Esparta. Juan José Bermúdez, Juan Alberto Rodríguez and Angélica Marín Calderín.

Portrait photography by Silvana Trevale

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