Fiz Pra Você (2024)

Fiz para você explores the intricate relationship between food, love, and familial expectations. This piece features a wooden cage encasing family recipes printed on fabric, intertwined with a red cotton ribbon inscribed with intimate, handwritten sentences. The wooden structure serves as a metaphor for emotional confinement, symbolizing how food, traditionally a gesture of love and care, can also impose societal and familial pressures.

The red ribbon, striking against the fabric, is filled with personal inscriptions in black fabric marker, directly reflecting the emotional weight carried throughout my life. These handwritten sentences offer an intimate glimpse into my upbringing, evoking memories of shared meals, love, and the inescapable expectations that accompanied them.

Through Fiz para você, I invite viewers to consider the duality of nourishment—how food can nurture and connect, yet also confine and control. The materials, carefully selected for their symbolic resonance, reflect my ongoing exploration of the emotional intersections between body image, nourishment, and the deep-seated emotional hunger we experience within the familial structure.

This piece continues my journey of using familiar objects and personal narratives to examine universal themes, encouraging reflection on how deeply food and love are intertwined in our emotional lives.