The Welcome Home series of installations is part of the project Poetics of the Ordinary, where I study historical decorative patterns and everyday household objects from the 17th to the 20th century. In this way, Welcome Home is a dialogue between two worlds, where I merge historical patterns with contemporary elements by assembling industrial materials, lights and the transfer technique. By mixing the old with the present, the real with representation and mass production with the unique and unrepeatable, I seek to construct new narratives of domestic space that connect with the historical heritage that defines them.

The Welcome Home V installation is made up of 4 panels joined by hinges that allude to the walls of a house. It takes as a reference the construction process of a wall, the partition wall being the first step and the cladding the last, in reality there are more elements in between, but the installation takes these two elements to create a spatial play of lines and voids. The black and white patterns transferred onto plywood contrast with the coloured planes of some of the ‘tiles’ and the pink light.

This piece is inspired by part of the history of porcelain, specifically when it arrived in Europe. In the 17th century, porcelain was highly coveted by European royalty and aristocracy, it was considered the white gold of the time and could only be imported from China. At that time, the European kingdoms did not know the secret of its manufacture, and many tried without success. It was not until the beginning of the 18th century that the secret was discovered in Meissen. Because it was such a valuable product, the King of Saxony set up the porcelain manufactory in the castle of Albrechtsburg. All the patterns used in this installation belonged to the decoration of the walls of the castle, which was intended to keep the secret. Shortly afterwards, other kingdoms also managed to get hold of the secret, but Meissen porcelain remains one of the most prestigious porcelain manufactures to this day.

The project Poetics of the Ordinary, I started during an artist residency at GlogauAIR, Berlin. During my stay in Berlin I started to study the history of porcelain and to visit historical buildings in and around Berlin and Dresden. The first installations of Welcome Home were made during this residency at the end of 2023. Their development was experimental, exploring different possibilities. The aim was to integrate the patterns into a structure using transfer as the main technique and to add pink lighting to the structure to create a contemporary atmosphere, conveying the fusion of past and present. The pieces produced during the residency were funded by the ‘Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Cultural y las Artes, Convocatoria 2023’ granted by the Ministry of Culture, Arts and Patrimony of the Government of Chile.