VRIJHEID VAN DE GAST

Engaging with diverse mediums and techniques, Palmar gleans the sinuous terrain of hospitality to problematize its twofold nature: as an autonomous and decentralized gesture, characterized by the willingness to give space to an Other, and as an instrument in the construction of the idea of ​​​​freedom by nation-states, historically linked to the regulation of Otherness and the pursuit of economic interests.

Moving through traditional formats such as drawing, painting and collage to installation, video and cooking, the works that conform this series spring from an inner imagery concocted of materials and symbols that have been gathered through his migratory journey. Such a trajectory began in the East Coast of the Maracaibo ́s Lake, passing through the Dutch Caribbean and arriving in the Netherlands, thus producing hybrid dream-like landscapes that point to a zone of flux between interiority and the normative order of the external world.

Rooted in his own migratory and diasporic experience, this group of works explores the interstitial space between the aforementioned polarities that shape the notions and practice of hospitality, evidencing its entanglements with desire, power and identity.