Toia Salvay, Jazmin Puyen, Nayla Zarba, Rosa Amarilla
Performance: Flora Francola y Montserrat Vera Barrera
Curator: Catalina Bagnato Irigoyen
April 10 – May 4, 2026
Opening: Friday, April 10, 7 PM
Cassia House presents A Home for the Sensitive, a group exhibition bringing together works by Toia Salvay, Jazmin Puyen, Nayla Zarba, and Rosa Amarilla through an open call, articulating a shared territory where intimacy, memory, and the idea of home unfold as an aesthetic experience.
Far from a single definition, the exhibition proposes thinking of home as a construction in tension: a space that contains, but also delimits; that shelters and, at the same time, can become unsettling. In this intersection, the works explore what persists in the experience of inhabiting—not only as a physical place, but as a sensitive way of relating to the world.
This exhibition emerges from an open call and an unexpected certainty: we discovered, to our surprise, that in the proposals of many women artists there dwelled a poetics of intimacy, memory, and home. The next question arose inevitably: why?
Perhaps because, even today, something persists. In a present like the one we are going through—where new voices (amplified by social media) seem to push toward old forms, proposing a return to traditions that confine the feminine space to the home—it is striking to find so many artists who portray, analyze, and re-signify it.
Historically linked to the construction of the individual, the modern house has been studied as the perfect forge of all social and affective power relations, becoming the vernacular origin of our life in society. It is not just a space, but an agent—a presence that shapes. What does home mean for a woman? From Plath’s fateful oven or Sandy Orgel’s mannequin trapped inside a closet, to the sweetness and warmth evoked by Roberta Iannamico, home becomes both metaphor and paradox of the feminine. The complexity of this space is evident in the duality of women’s experience: the house has historically been synonymous with imposed isolation and marginalization, but also a space of resistance, sisterhood, and tenderness. Within it, bonds are formed and the roots of identity are grounded; within it, inherited roles are sustained and questioned. We build homes that build us, inhabiting them in the inevitable dichotomy of perhaps feeling imprisoned, or owners, or protected inhabitants of those walls.
In the works of the artists gathered here, home becomes a space to explore, where the relationships formed within oscillate between the warmth of a caress and the sharp unease of any thorn or shadow it may conceal. Home becomes an unstable image: refuge and confinement, wound and shelter. The works in this exhibition traverse that uncertain territory and ultimately construct a new space: they challenge the logic of four walls and formulate (through ceramics, canvas, or performance) a true home for the sensitive. A space to feel, question, and experience the intricate logics of any house. A space where feeling is not excess, but language. A place to stay—or from which, finally, one can leave.
- Catalina Bagnato Irigoyen
The works brought together in this exhibition collectively construct a new territory: a place where the sensitive does not overflow, but instead affirms itself as language. A space to inhabit, question, and re-signify what we understand as our own.
The exhibition will feature live activations and performances, accompanying this journey as part of a shared experience between artwork, body, and space.
We especially thank Bodega Canteros for supporting the different events of the exhibition, joining this collective experience of encounter between art, city, and hospitality.
