Acúmulos (Accumulations), is an invitation to reflect on the excesses of modern life.

Modernity has brought an overload of tasks and information. The one who manages to perform more than one function at the same time, the multitasker, is exalted and valued as a symbol of productivity and efficiency.

For us, women, this ideal of multifunctionality is imposed from an early age. We are taught to occupy multiple roles: mother, wife, professional, daughter, caregiver, household manager, and many others. These roles accumulate and overlap in an exhausting and overloaded routine. We live among endless to-do lists, without pauses, disconnected.

In creating the works of this project, I explored the repetition of gestures and the excess of elements as a way to materialize accumulation and task overload. The reiteration of patterns and minimal chromatic variation reinforce the idea of automatism, as if life unfolded without breath. In the photographs, beyond repetition, the eyes in the portraits were covered with a red stripe reminiscent of a product barcode, suggesting that, faced with accumulation and overload, women lose presence within themselves.

The work is composed of Acúmulos (Accumulations),hand-embroidered linen cambric fabrics, approximately 22 cm x 22 cm; Sobrecargas (Overloads),acrylic paintings on watercolor paper, hand-embroidered, measuring 32 cm x 24 cm; Acúmulos Sedimentados (Sedimented Accumulations),acrylic on small linen scraps of approximately 3 cm x 3 cm, layered upon each other on a 60 cm x 60 cm canvas base; Acumuladas (Accumulated),photographs printed with mineral pigments.

Mixed media