Rinella Alfonso (Curaçao, 1995) creates mystical worlds on canvas by placing everyday objects in stark fantasy environments. The featured objects in her work are often cheaply produced and disposable, yet bear meaning in Alfonso’s memories of people and places. Using the formal language of painting, she produces poetic works that offer the viewer a new reality in which bodies, everyday objects, memories, and fiction coexist. Manicured hands, plastic chairs or beaded curtains interact with their fantastical surroundings in an absurdist yet natural way. Both bodily shapes and objects are painted in impasto pigments, and as things collide with beings, Alfonso proposes a new reality in which both exist on a similar level.