INÉS FIGAREDO: CASA
CAYÓN is pleased to present in Madrid, Casa, the first exhibition of the artist Inés Figaredo.
November 20, 2025 – January 09, 2026
Figaredo's work is unique, combining antique objects steeped in history, neon lights, embroidery, and everyday materials brimming with memory and symbolism. With this exhibition, we invite viewers to discover a body of work we consider exceptional.
Far removed from conventional artistic training, Inés Figaredo began her artistic practice many years ago out of a vital need to order, understand, and structure her existence. Casa (House) is the result of a voluntary domestic seclusion, a refuge from which the artist establishes an intimate dialogue with objects, spaces, and family routines, in an exercise of family archaeology and personal ethnography . Her creative process is born in this state of seclusion where home and family become the epicenter of creation, reflection, and healing.
Each work stems from an experience or imagined situation, which is translated by the artist into intervened objects or symbolic assemblages that oscillate between the emotional and the narrative.
His work blends the literal and the symbolic, the traditional and the artificial. Figaredo creates his own language with which he transforms the everyday into pieces that convey powerful messages and become poetic artifacts, capable of sustaining a repaired reality.
“I conceive of the home as the fundamental experience of human existence, the original and sensory space of identification. The loss of the home means the loss of the world.”
For me, it is vital to explore the man-world relationship and, specifically, the search for or rediscovery of the specific idea of proximity: intimacy.
The home is that first welcome, that original space that allows for self-construction, a constant return to oneself, where one can understand their own identity and confront the abyss of society. The home becomes a condition for being.
Living (always) at home, I fall into a kind of perpetual reverie where a particular coexistence with the objects (and their nature) I inhabit, and the imprint they leave on me, is crucial. Thanks to the resulting dialogue, a dynamic and creative imagination emerges, intrinsically linked to the relationship with a lived space. The material and the symbolic merge. Each drawer rescues you from oblivion, a doorknob invites you into a space of abstraction.
An imagination that creates and reconstructs an inventory of images (scenes) that I later identify and reconfigure through objects and materials.
Therefore, with the object there is a relationship, a reunion and a resource, always from the experience and the subconscious memory and towards a resolution.
What does it mean to inhabit the world? What does it mean to be at home?”
Inés Figaredo