Sweet Chronicles
Cecilia Luque

In July 2025, it was Cecilia Luque’s turn to participate in the Carapantallas Project. Visual artist and engraver, her intervention, entitled Sweet Chronicles, continued a line of work that explores the relationship between affective memory, printmaking practices, and acts of solidarity. As such, Sweet Chronicles began with a generous gesture: the artist preparing homemade sweets to share with the public. From this intimate, domestic practice, Cecilia created a work that intertwines artisanal knowledge with the materiality of engraving, words, and archives. The resulting installation consists of collages made on pages from a Latin American encyclopedia dating from 1888, combined with photocopies of the artist’s drawings, rubber stamps, texts printed in black grease pencil, and details in sanguine.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Since 1991 (the year I had my first solo exhibition), my work has almost always revolved around and developed strongly around themes related to biology, genetics, nature, and everyday life, which appear in a variety of techniques, formats, and spaces depending on how I want it to reach the viewer. Starting in 2013, I felt a deep need for change: for my work to be not only contemplative, but interactive. To be able to weave with the other, with others. Based on this premise, I began to create platforms for the viewer to become an actor, to leave their mark and thus feel part of the work.