PAN: Producto Artístico Nacional is a long-term project that emerges from my intimate and everyday relationship with my family’s bakery, a space that for more than forty years has been a source of livelihood, memory, and emotional territory. The bakery is not only a site of food production; it is a microcosm that reflects economic, social, and symbolic dynamics. From this place, the project has gradually taken shape as a field of artistic research where labor, migration, care, economy, and interspecies relations converge.

In this context, this space is understood as a conceptual and sensorial territory where bread ceases to be merely a product and becomes a living system—an ecosystem in which humans, microorganisms, plants, raw materials, affections, and economies interact. It is a way of naming this network of interdependencies that sustains everyday life and that the project seeks to make visible.

PAN: Producto Artístico Nacional transforms the Florentina bakery into an artistic and affective laboratory. There, food ceases to be a commodity and becomes body, memory, and bond. The project engages with my family’s migratory history—a mother who makes her craft a form of care, a father who recites poetry while the bread bakes—and with the shared experience of those who find in food a means of subsistence.

In this process, artistic practice does not separate itself from daily labor; it moves through it, questions it, and expands it. Bread becomes a critical material through which to reflect on the economic system, but also an offering, a celebration, and a gesture of gratitude toward the visible and invisible beings—corn, wheat, rye, yeasts—that make life possible.