Gabinete de algunas contradicciones diarias | Catalina Mena

Artist’s book by Catalina Mena limited to 3 unique copies.

Gabinete de algunas contradicciones diarias (Cabinet of Some Daily Contradictions) is a winged book in leporello format that stems from the artist’s queries about socially-established cultural ideas around the domestic and the feminine.

This way, Mena’s work advances a contrast between two significant ideas: wings as an element linked to freedom and enjoyment, which invites reflection on the human desire to transcend. Meanwhile, the knife as a functional object comes to build the contradiction. Generating a dialogue between life and death and reality and dreams, the work serves as a hinge between survival and defense, ultimately prompting us to reflect on the atmosphere and fragility that form our reality.