La canasta familiar: Fernando García Vásquez
“La Canasta Familiar” is a project by Barranquilla-based Fernando García, who commissions traditional painters from the neighborhood to create still lifes representing the foods they consider essential for basic subsistence.
_________________________________“La Canasta Familiar” es un proyecto del artista Barranquillero Fernando García, quien comisiona a pintores tradicionales del barrio, un bodegón que represente los alimentos que considere indispensables para la básica subsistencia.
“La Canasta Familiar” is a project by Barranquilla-based Fernando García, who commissions traditional neighborhood painters to create still lifes representing the foods they consider essential for basic subsistence.
In the basket are the foods
In the foods is wellbeing
In wellbeing is the local store
In the store is the shopkeeper with credit and the extra treat
In the shopkeeper is the neighborhood
In the neighborhood is the popular Caribbean community
The popular Caribbean community is in the basket
The basket is in the painting of the store
The painting of the store is in the painter’s imagination
The painter is in the popular imagination
The popular imagination is in cultural identity
In cultural identity is another kind of wellbeing
These are not in the plans of the multinationals
That the government allowed to slip in.
