The exhibition developed by Florencia Serrano Wicnudel, titled Congelada (Frozen), documents her experience during quarantine and inhabiting the inhospitable parts of her home – every day the same, one after another. Living within her house, within her mind, became tremendously challenging and exhausting. This series of analog photographs capture glimpses of loneliness in a house full of people, full of demons. They capture empty beds and showers; different views from the same window; traces and stains left by the body; people who are there but don't see me; scenes of stories not worth telling. Congelada portrays intimacy in a raw and unfiltered way, ultimately encapsulating what the artist understands as "home" today: "not a space, but a specific moment that holds us within our history."
Florencia Serrano Wicnudel's work has focused on studying people's sense of belonging to various spaces, both physical and psychological, particularly in how hostile contexts transform into warm and intimate places – into homes. This began in 2009 due to a family event where her father was declared guilty in a trial and sentenced to more than 15 years of effective imprisonment. Being in this situation forced her to reconsider her family's common places. If her father was far away, was her home her house? Or was her home where her family was? In nostalgic visits and endless lines, as described by the artist herself, she understood that these spaces housed families, composed of parents, children, couples, friends... Those who made that place a shared space, a space of support, a space of fire and intimacy. Over time, these places expanded: hospitals, psychiatric facilities, exiles, and even cemeteries. "Where we feel belonging, we build a home." Today, she works by portraying and constructing not only spaces and faces that reflect ownership, territory, and belonging, but also the rituals and traditions carried out within them, and their importance in the process of building new homes. "Ultimately, it's memory and the way we perpetuate it that defines and constructs the way we inhabit."