I investigate the complexities of domestic interiority and the dignity of feminized labor. Prepping, cooking, sweeping, mopping, washing, mending, decorating, dreaming—the job of a homemaker is never done; the perpetuity of domestic work sets the stage for my unpeopled objects, where a mop can pose as a female nude or a cup of coffee can hold the desires of a day. Drawing from art history, Caribbean cosmologies, and my own family history of domestic labor, my work injects fantasy into the mundane, underscoring a fragile truce between The Worker and The Home, between the body and the industry of homemaking.

Armanis Fuentes (b. 1997, Bayamon, Puerto Rico) is a multidisciplinary artist from Holyoke, Massachusetts. They received a BA in Art History and Studio from Williams College, Williamstown, MA and an AA in Liberal Arts from Holyoke Community College, Holyoke, MA. Fuentes is a member of the artist collective hotbed, and is based in Pittsburgh, PA with their collective-mates.