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Twentieth-century architecture understood that it is impossible to separate body awareness from the perception of space. Invisible traces of the passage of our use are imprinted in the order of our homes, in the way in which utensils are placed and the position in which we arrange furniture. In department stores and art galleries, things usually occupy a pristine and immaculate position, abstracted from everyday life, but once acquired by their new owners, they enter the personal universe of the home, they interact, altering its identity: paintings, sculptures, sofas, rugs and ladles bring their nature closer, they form a team that delimits the meaning of what we consider our own.

William Contreras Fonseca, curator

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