Confabular cotidianos
Vanessa Freitag
Confabular Cotidianos presents domestic landscapes as a playful and intuitive way of rethinking the everyday. When conceiving the exhibition, we imagined the experience of walking through a home—thus, the show is structured around three main spaces: the garden, the corporeal, and the dreamlike. Conceived as a heterotopic space, the garden brings together sculptures that engage in dialogue through materials and the stories they might contain. Like a harvest, clothing, threads, fabrics, crafts, and keepsakes—carefully gathered by the artist from flea markets, street stalls, and garage sales—are woven into “exotic plants,” relational sculptures that might also resemble small nests. The vacuoles, on the other hand, are forms built to evoke cells—sculptures that stretch and flatten, holding within them woven or found elements, as well as small objects that speak of care, nourishment, warmth, and the space of the intimate and private. Some of these pieces may appear subtle in character, but they also question gender roles and, with quiet intensity, position us in the realm of voyeurism. In how many ways do we experience the body?
Like in a dream, the dreamlike sculptures are formed through the accumulation and displacement of objects. Their scale or position within each piece encourages connection to the imaginary. Vessels, teapots, crafts, textiles, and other domestic or bodily objects that once belonged to others become guardians of stories and memories—sparks for fables.
This exhibition arises from a desire to translate these temporalities and narratives into sculptural arrangements. The process of weaving, gathering, nesting, entangling, and holding through fabric helps give shape to invented narratives—without a fixed preamble.
Vanessa Freitag
Curated by Selma Guisande
