Josefina Mellado 15.10-30.11 (Chile)

BIO//

Josefina Mellado is a visual artist from Chile, currently based in Santiago. She works primarily with installation and explores the relationship between painting and architecture.   

In 2019, Chile experienced a series of intense riots and social upheaval, during which the feminist movement played a pivotal role. Since then, Josefina has been focusing on building spaces with a hyper-feminine approach and exploring concepts often overlooked in architecture due to their association with femininity, such as colour, decoration, and domesticity. 

PROJECT//

During her residency in Nart, Josefina plans to dig deeper into the relationship between self-care and politics as she is currently developing a project about healing in politically unstable contexts. The project called “How to Make a Bomb at Home”, is a lecture/performance where she discusses her knowledge of healing strategies, she imagines this project as a Coven, highly inspired by “Caliban and the Witch”, where Silvia Federici explains that during the Inquisition, women were expropriated of their empirical knowledge about herbs and remedies, as a way to oppress women.