Capsulares
Embajada, San Juan, 2023

A companion piece to Portales y Desgastes (Portals and Decay), Capsulares is an inquisitive assembling of memory through the use of ready-made materials: old office cabinets that glow from the inside and onto a painting carefully placed above them. “Like an X-Ray,” says the artist.

Every painting represents a unique fracture of memory zeroed in by the light, highlighting the root of the matter: the breakage of our collective past.

Text by Cleo León Ricart

An office cabinet glowing from the inside and onto a painting carefully placed above it.
Get Started

Capsular: Vigilancia, c. 1975
Oil and beeswax over acrylic, metal cabinet and LED
16” x 12” x 5”

An office cabinet glowing from the inside and onto a painting carefully placed above it.

Capsular: Cena, c.1968
Oil and beeswax over acrylic, metal cabinet and LED
5” x 32” x 4”

An office cabinet glowing from the inside and onto a painting carefully placed above it.

Capsular: Desabordado, Carolina
Oil and beeswax over acrylic, metal cabinet and LED
16” x 8” x 5”

Dimly lit art installation with illuminated office cabinets, each displaying a painting and mounted on a textured wall in an empty room.

Photo: Raquel Pérez Puig