DOMESTIC TETRIS (diary) Blanca Prendes 22.11 - 22.12.2025

Domestic Tetris (Diary) is the first exhibition by Blanca Prendes (Gijón, 1973) at the Lucía Dueñas Gallery. A graduate in Fine Arts from the University of Salamanca, she studied in Kassel and at the HFG Offenbach, Frankfurt, while developing part of her creative activity, which she continued in Badajoz and later in Asturias where she has settled.

His early work was based on an informalist style of painting that moved between figuration and abstraction. In 2003, the warehouse where his work was stored caught fire, destroying all the pieces he had produced in the previous two years. From that moment on, his work underwent a significant change. He no longer focused on a single technique and abandoned his visceral and spontaneous way of working.

Over time, she has returned to purely pictorial languages, although she continues to explore new media and techniques. For several years she taught at the Oviedo School of Art . She is currently Design professor at Esapa , Higher School of Art of the Principality of Asturias.

DOMESTIC TETRIS (diary)

As a mother and an artist, the simple act of painting becomes a performance. It's not just about applying paint or creating an image; it's about reclaiming a mental and temporal space that is constantly being taken from me. Every moment of concentration, every brushstroke, is a victory against the fragmented attention imposed by the mental burden of domestic life.

My domestic Tetris project was born from that tension, the need to fit tasks, schedules, and bodies into an impossible scheme. The Tetris pieces were then metaphors for daily organization, for the constant attempt to make everything fit without collapsing.

Now, that metaphor has mutated in practice itself. Painting no longer represents Tetris ; it is Tetris . Painting is moving mental pieces, finding the space between the shopping list and the school meeting, between exhaustion and the desire to create. The act of painting, or of having the time, the mind, and the desire, becomes a silent struggle, a form of resistance against the invisibility of the mental work that sustains daily life.

Painting or creating any other type of piece, in this context, is a political gesture. Not because it explicitly addresses motherhood or mental burden, but because it exists despite them, because it insists on the possibility of one's own space.

Blanca Prendes