Hablando en la mesa : reflexiones sobre la comida puertorriqueña
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Hablando en la mesa: reflexiones sobre la comida puertorriqueña es un proyecto de investigación-creación que cuestiona los imaginarios construidos en torno a la comida puertorriqueña. Más allá de entenderla como símbolo celebratorio de identidad y tradición, el proyecto propone mirarla como una construcción histórica atravesada por relaciones de poder, memoria, desigualdad y resistencia. Desde esta perspectiva, lo “típico” no se asume como una herencia dada, sino como un relato que selecciona ciertas imágenes de país mientras deja fuera cuerpos, saberes, territorios, trabajos y condiciones materiales que sostienen la mesa. A través de la pintura, la curaduría y la mediación cultural, el proyecto busca intervenir en esas narrativas y producir conocimiento sensible, crítico y situado. La serie pictórica desplaza la mirada del alimento como objeto aislado hacia escenas, gestos, procesos y relaciones que permiten pensar la comida como práctica viva, memoria compartida y espacio de disputa cultural. A su vez, la exhibición y sus mediaciones amplían el proyecto más allá de la obra pictórica, abriendo espacios de diálogo y reflexión colectiva sobre nuestra relación con la comida, el territorio, la cultura y la vida común.
Speaking at the Table: Reflections on Puerto Rican Food is a research-creation project that questions the imaginaries built around Puerto Rican food. Rather than approaching food solely as a celebratory symbol of identity and tradition, the project understands it as a historical construction shaped by power relations, memory, inequality, and resistance. From this perspective, the “typical” is not assumed to be a given inheritance, but rather a narrative that selects certain images of the nation while leaving out the bodies, knowledges, territories, forms of labor, and material conditions that sustain the table. Through painting, curatorial practice, and cultural mediation, the project seeks to intervene in these narratives and produce sensitive, critical, and situated knowledge. The pictorial series shifts attention away from food as an isolated object and toward scenes, gestures, processes, and relationships that allow food to be understood as a living practice, a shared memory, and a site of cultural dispute. At the same time, the exhibition and its mediation strategies extend the project beyond the pictorial work, opening spaces for dialogue and collective reflection on our relationship with food, territory, culture, and communal life.
Speaking at the Table: Reflections on Puerto Rican Food is a research-creation project that questions the imaginaries built around Puerto Rican food. Rather than approaching food solely as a celebratory symbol of identity and tradition, the project understands it as a historical construction shaped by power relations, memory, inequality, and resistance. From this perspective, the “typical” is not assumed to be a given inheritance, but rather a narrative that selects certain images of the nation while leaving out the bodies, knowledges, territories, forms of labor, and material conditions that sustain the table. Through painting, curatorial practice, and cultural mediation, the project seeks to intervene in these narratives and produce sensitive, critical, and situated knowledge. The pictorial series shifts attention away from food as an isolated object and toward scenes, gestures, processes, and relationships that allow food to be understood as a living practice, a shared memory, and a site of cultural dispute. At the same time, the exhibition and its mediation strategies extend the project beyond the pictorial work, opening spaces for dialogue and collective reflection on our relationship with food, territory, culture, and communal life.
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