LA MESA ESTÁ SERVIDA
A contemporary still-life series where everyday objects become reflections of memory and identity. Through food and domestic scenes, Barco Mejas transforms the ordinary table into a poetic space of emotion, choice, and belonging.
“REINA”
2024
Acrilic of canva
90x60 cm
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“REINA”
A few cherries sit on a tablecloth of red and white diamond patterns. The diamonds are reminiscent of the diamonds in French playing cards and nod to the artist's travels.
PISTACCIO
2024
Acrilic of canva
55x65 cm
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“PISTACCIO”
A chopping board, with raw vegetables for cooking, anticipates a family gathering, a desire to share.
LAS GUAYABAS DE SILVIA
2024
Acrilic of canva
100x100 cm
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“LAS GUAYABAS DE SILVIA”
Is a loving tribute to the artist's mother, for whom this fruit represents more than a taste: it is memory, it is roots, it is identity. The choice of a tropical fruit underscores not only the family bond but also the cultural weight of everyday life.
GRANDPA´S SOUP
2024
Acrilic of canva
90x60 cm
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Grandpa´s soup
It is a work that invites us to reflect on the origins of the everyday and the emotional. By showing only the ingredients, the artist imagines the process, the warmth, the smells, and the familiar gesture of the grandfather preparing the soup.
GUANABANA
2024
Acrilic of canva
100x100 cm
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“GUANABANA”
In a vibrant dialogue between green and fuchsia, soursops float suspended like tropical dreams in the air. The artwork evokes memories of flavor, the scent of ripe fruit, and the nostalgia for the warm places of childhood. The soursop, with its spiky texture and inner sweetness, becomes a symbol of what it protects and offers, of the gentleness that hides beneath the skin.
WHERE DID GRAVITY GO?
2025
Acrilic of canva
61x100 cm
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WHERE DID GRAVITY GO?
It plays with the balance between what is known and what is unknown, between what is certain and what is uncertain. It invites us to reflect on how, sometimes, life leaves us unable to execute, but it also offers us the opportunity to see things from a different angle.
MAMÓN
2024
Acrilic of canva
90x60
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“MAMON”
A bunch of mamones rests on a blue and cream-colored checkered tablecloth. One of them has been cut open, revealing the pink center of its seed the “pepa” like a discreet, intimate revelation. The scene is serene, yet laden with affective and cultural references.
AZULEJOS + LIMONES
2024
SOLD
Acrilic of canva
70x100
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“AZULEJOS + LIMONES”(Tiles and Lemons) Across a tiled surface unfolds a quiet prelude: a plate of lemons, a cutting board, and the still gesture before beginning. The work captures that intimate instant when everything is about to happen, the preface to a recipe, a lemonade, or a cocktail, where the citrus aroma announces possibility.
It is the threshold of action, a still life that breathes freshness and expectation, turning everyday life into promise.
PLAYA
2024
Acrilic of canva
55x65 cm
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“PLAYA” A plate of shrimp, a pinch of salt, and the table meets the shore.
Between the sea and the everyday, everything tastes like summer.
IF LIFE GIVES YOU LEMONS
2024
SOLD
Acrilic of canva
100x61 cm
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“IF LIFE GIVES YOU LEMONS”, it is a painting that represents opportunity, on a table of green tiles rest the lemons and several lumps of sugar are scattered around.
UN DOMINGO
2024
Acrilic of canva
100x65 cm
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“ UN DOMINGO”
A Sunday is a work that celebrates the simplicity of the moment. The pasta, still inert, promises transformation; the garlic and cheese, so humble, suggest the warmth of a shared meal; and the nuts, scattered with apparent disorder, are almost a reminder of what is left out, what is unplanned, what is enjoyed for its unexpectedness.
TODO ME SABE A POCO
2024
Acrilic of canva
55x65 cm
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“TODO ME SABE A POCO”
Everything Tastes Bland to Me is a work about the essential and the invisible. Garlic and rosemary, ingredients that rarely take center stage, but without which everything feels incomplete,become metaphors for those people or gestures that, without drawing attention to themselves, sustain our inner world. Who are the garlic and rosemary in our lives? Who is there, giving meaning, even if unseen?