24.06.2026-20.08.2026
VITRINE NO.3 AMOR, TE EXTRAÑO
NAOMI GAMARRA
NAOMI GAMARRA
What do you give to the people you love when you haven’t seen your grandmother, who remained back home, in five years, or when you miss the one you love?
In some cases, that absence can be engraved on the walls of a school or written into a scented letter.
For me, giving balloons is another form of vocabulary connected to my family’s love language. A popular saying, a line from a cumbia song, or words that matter to us are written on these floating specters, which become part of the symbols of festivity, joy, and love that el reencuentro—the reunion—evokes for us.
Through them, absence and love become visible.
Far from being mere festive objects, they become vessels of memory, kinship, and affection. They carry the words that sometimes cannot be conveyed in any other way and make tangible the longing for reunion when borders still keep bodies apart.
Although these forms are associated with kitsch aesthetics according to certain Western value systems, to me they represent a revalourisation of Brown aesthetics that migrated from South America with my family. To embrace these alternative forms is
also to affirm the ways our communities express love, longing,
and celebration.
Behind these balloons emerges a different economy of affection: a way of showing love that privileges visibility, abundance, expressiveness, and the occupation of space.
Our emotions unfold, cling to walls, float above
celebrations, and cross borders.
Because when I miss you, I want to show it in a big way.
La Dent de Scie
Each quarter, Collectif Kimera invites an artist to take over La Dent de Scie, installed on the rooftop terrace of Espace Dukat. Addressed to the passers-by, this ever-evolving space offers carte blanche for the creation of physical and three-dimensional installations.