Jorge Cabieses presents “Domesticables”: a tribute to the aesthetic qualities of trivial objects

It was Marcel Duchamp who elevated simple and everyday objects to the category of art. By emphasizing aesthetic qualities over utilitarian ones, he gave birth to ready-made objects, which are decontextualized from their triviality, being considered as artistic pieces. For Jorge Cabieses, this artistic expression helped bring light to domestic objects that he previously considered invisible.

“Since the pandemic, I began to lose many things but also to inherit others. For this reason, my work began with these memories, finding a place for them within my work”, says the artist. Through his show “Domesticables”, Jorge Cabieses ventures on the side of the intimate, the everyday and the malleable, but also the unsuspected and the foreign, that which resists.

The visual artist plays with elements from his own family home or his personal workshop, objects that were apparently found in the exile of useless things. “I usually mold bars, tubes or carpets. I don’t just work on canvas, he used different bodies of work to place these materials. In a way I like to “tame” these supports, ”, he adds.

This exhibition generates friction between these objects found –or found art– that are organized, reinvented and create a new graphic meaning. “The intervention of these pieces leads to the integration of the common object into the work of art in a more open and poetic way,” he explains.

Curated by Jesús Martínez Mogrovejo, “Domesticables” can then be read in a Dadaist way as a (re)architecture of the familiar, of the domestic. A set of plans, sketches and supports that clash with colors and geometry, allowing the meanings of the supposedly inconsequential of everyday life to freely circulate and renew themselves.