Teresa Moro

Things, those we have in our private spaces or see outside of them, are the primary and obsessive focus of my work. My art has always been inspired by objects for everyday use, my emotional connection with them, and the evocative power they derive from their constant and sometimes intimate interaction with us.

I observe the ordinary in order to reveal its most enigmatic side and expose its subtle alterations or tensions. I look, track and investigate to find the materials of my iconography. I work with mundane, almost invisible things, objects so ordinary that people tend to ignore, overlook or discard them. I test an aesthetic whose banality and insignificance requires a special sensibility. In his book An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris, Georges Perec defined the infraordinary as “what happens when nothing happens”.

Working from a graphic archive of personal photos and found documentation, I assemble families of drawings and paintings, open-ended series to which I keep adding pieces. This is how I usually work, creating collections of images on the same theme, deliberately seeking accumulation and even a sense of repetition. I like making viewers look closely to find the differences.
For me, seeking out and highlighting details, nuances and diversity has become an antidote to the frustrating realisation that consumer society is gradually standardising our habitats.