DANIELA LIBERTAD. HAY PODER EN LO PEQUEÑO

This exhibition deals with processes, time, change; with the small things that are part of a larger whole. It is a portrait of my time in Germany, living, raising.

I pay attention to what begins, what is taking shape, what screams, cries, hugs, asks, needs, desires. I play on the floor, negotiate with two little children, get tired, try to understand my limits while imposing others’ (there is hypocrisy in parenting). That little thing that changes shape, explodes, challenges, slips away, questions, asks, makes me uncomfortable, tires me, exhausts me, compromises me; it is.

Those little things that amaze me with their power: the dust in my house, drops of breast milk, my children, hair that fall out, the sand from the park that gets into the shoes, the collected pebbles, the twigs, the cookie crumbs in the bag.

That little thing is me too, asking questions about my surroundings. About inhabiting a new place, about what takes time: feeling at home, making dust.

• Daniela Libertad