LIQUID INHERITANCES​

Liquid Inheritances investigates how household objects, ornaments, and historical narratives have preserved a symbolic association between women and water across generations.

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Water flows through these works as memory. It connects bodies and temporalities, revealing a heritage transmitted not only through bloodlines but through gestures, images, rituals, and stories learned through repetition.

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I am interested in understanding how this enduring proximity between women and water was constructed, sustained, and gradually transformed into social expectation, everyday responsibility, and, often, a form of exploitation.

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The series brings together porcelain, enamel basins, portraits, aquatic landscapes, sculptures, and everyday objects inspired by the traces left by tradition. It evokes the lives of women who fetched water, washed clothes, sustained their families, and passed knowledge from one generation to the next through repetitive gestures, forms of labor and care rarely granted a place in official history.

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The objects themselves participate in this narrative. They do not merely testify to a particular time; they shape imaginaries, organize affections, and reinforce ideas about who cares, who serves, who preserves, and who disappears from history.

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By bringing together painting, sculpture, and found objects, Liquid Inheritances transforms domestic utensils into sensitive archives. They become vessels of memory, holding the traces of absent lives while asking how much of this inheritance still inhabits the things we choose to preserve.