A kitchen, a memory, a love letter to my father.
Over the past six months, what began as the Visual Storytellers program by
@qissa.socials slowly became something much more personal than I ever expected.
MEMRE (2026)
This work grew from a childhood memory: coming home from school and seeing my father in the kitchen, cooking. Now I relive that same memory through the eyes of my own children, and in that process I began to understand how memories, care, and identity travel through generations.
During the seven-day exhibition, work by
@naokoderiu ,
@blackchildish ,
@wuguanyan ,
@rawensculpts ,
@esracopur_ ,
@profdaydreamer , and
@caithlincourtneychong was on view at
@brutus.rotterdam , curated by
@opperclaes .
For this installation, I placed a kitchen inside the exhibition space, We see a countertop filled with kitchen objects, and above it the video plays in a continuous loop. — a domestic setting transformed into a place of memory, heritage, migration, and love.
One moment during Museum Night Rotterdam will stay with me forever: two Italian women opened all the cabinets, thinking they could start cooking there. While I was explaining that it was an art installation, they suddenly saw my father in the film breaking spaghetti to make bami.
They looked shocked and said,
“Beautiful project, but please tell your father to never break pasta again.” 😂
That moment held everything for me — humor, recognition, memory, and connection.
Mucho grande love and gratitude to everyone who helped bring this work to life, and to everyone who came to experience What Becomes at Brutus Rotterdam.
Major love to
@atlynnvrolijk and
@carminatje for the guidance and all the masterclasses involved. You ladies did that! 💐💐💐💐💐🦚
S/o to
@ashleyrottjers for the coaching 💐🌞
📸
@xaveer.may
Lobi ♥️
