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Artwork Description

In Nino Cais' work, domestic objects are never just utensils; they are bodies, skins, receptacles of memory. In this floor installation, the artist confronts us with a striking material tension: the delicacy of porcelain pierced by the cold brutality of the harpoon. By piercing three antique plates, Nino immediately evokes the Christian iconography of Saint Sebastian. Here, however, the martyr's body disappears. The flesh is replaced by crockery—a symbol of food, family affection, and tradition. The harpoon, an instrument of hunting and capture, not only wounds but “organizes” these plates in a forced verticality, transforming domestic stacking into an act of sacrifice. There is a silent violence in the impossibility of use: the plate, made to serve, is now nullified in its function, transfixed like a collection specimen. The work operates in the dialectic between nutrition (the plate) and capture (the harpoon), suggesting that our memories can be both a refuge and an open wound. A scar on the porcelain that reminds us of the sacred fragility of everyday life.