"Home is the place that, when you have to go there, they have to take you in." - Robert Frost.
What is the home? What do we understand by home? Is it a roof and four walls, or is it more than that? When do we feel that a place belongs to us? At what moment do we adapt to a space and feel that it is our own? Is it a place, a feeling or just a memory?
The notion of home means something different to everyone yet it is a common place to all. The house is the physical space, the space built from an architectural point of view or that more structural part. The inhabited space speaks of those who inhabit it. The home is what is woven from personal relationships with oneself or with the ones where one lives, and it is often associated with the place where one feels protected and accepted, where traditions are lived and identities can be developed.
The home is a sacred space, not in the religious sense but rather in the sense of a place of retreat, of intimacy, a place where only those who are invited may enter and that works like a bubble to disappear from the world and rest. In that order of ideas, home is not only in the place where one is born or where the family is, but rather, where one wants to create it.
Mi Casa, Tu Casa approaches the home in its multiple definitions, a place that is both material and immaterial, and explores the intimacy that unfolds there.
About the artists
Jeffly Gabriela Molina is a Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist from Táchira, Venezuela. She moved to the US in 2007 and lived in Miami for four years, where she attended the New World School of the Arts. In 2011, Molina transferred to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she graduated with a BFA in 2013 and an MFA in 2016. In addition to participating in multiple group and solo exhibitions, she has undertaken three permanent public sculpture commissions in Miami. Recent solo exhibitions include De Madeira y Aire at Galeria Enrique Guerrero in Mexico City and Suspiro at Kavi Gupta in Chicago. She has been awarded an Emerging Artist Fellowship from the Driehaus.
Catalina Jaramillo Quijano is a visual Colombian artist and cultural manager. Since 2021 she has co-directed Flotante, an independent space with an emphasis on applied arts based in Bogotá. Her artistic work has been exhibited in different countries in the Americas and Europe and is part of public collections such as the Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, Museo la Tertulia, Museo de Antioquia, and Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia. She has participated in residency programmes such as Odyssée programme, Residencia artística FAAP, Barda del Desierto, Pivô Pesquisa, Escuela Flora (Flora ars+natura) and El Ranchito (Matadero Madrid). Her artistic practice has been characterised by her use of graphic images, with an interest in the poetics of everyday life; through tools such as drawing, painting, publications, and installation, she aims to create minimal narratives with the use of simple gestures and subtle signs to be read.
Andrea Villalón is a visual artist originally from Uruapan, Michoacán, México. She received her BFA from Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Grabado y Escultura “La Esmeralda” in Mexico City and currently lives and works in London, UK. Villalón is also the founder and curator of Concha Eléctrica: an online art platform based on Instagram showcasing women artists from México and the world through weekly takeovers since 2015.
