Size variable within 12m2 of space. Mixed media installation, includes video, ceramics, furniture and “family portraits”. Photos were taken during exhibition "A World of Many Worlds” at CBK Zuidoost in Amsterdam.

Materials: stoneware, earthware, engobe, furniture, rug, enlisted photographies, enlisted found print, 15 minutes looping video, tv screen. Ceramic sculptures fired between 1010 and 1080 degrees celcius.
size: heads on couch are 30 to 45 cm circumference. The masks are human face size. Presented within a 10m2 space.

The installation parodies the way social systems teach how to stigmatise others. The work tries to mimic the system that, using the mass media, infiltrates within the multicultural household. For this I recreated the living room of my parents in Lima - Peru during my upbringing in the 80's. The big ceramic heads sitting on the sofa represent members of my family, including myself, watching TV content of that time, through a looping video I created (https://youtu.be/EiJQq8GAveA ). In the program poor people accepted racist comments, in order to gain some cents. And TV commercials sent messages about the ideal lifestyle, represented by white people. The ceramic masks hanging on one wall, represent the many society fears, dreams, types of oppression and invisibility. Some of the masks have a text on them, mostly adjectives of racial discrimination used in Peru. A Peruvian middle class social convention is also observed in the installation, by mimicking the way of “sitting at home” within the middle and upper middle class family. The sculpture of a servant is sitting next to the sculpture of the house cat on the floor, on a lower physical position than the boss of the house.
The public can engage, by sitting on the chairs or on the rug to watch the video. “An Education,” became a habitat for coexistence when people of the neighbourhood of the CBK Zuidoost gallery, in the Bijlmer - Amsterdam, were regularly coming to meet at the installation carpet and to chat about social issues, like racial prejudices or ethnical profiling in the city.
The work borrows inspiration from the ancestral Peruvian sculpture, such as Cabezas Clavas (stone heads) from Chavin culture and Mochica ceramics.