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Esteban La RottaMi Familia - Original Oil Painting on Panel, Contemporary, 20252025
2025
$5,000
£3,794.52
€4,372.09
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A$7,569.18
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NOK 51,218.86
SEK 46,857.33
DKK 32,660.07
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Seen together, the painting unfolds as a quiet but charged meditation on domestic space as a site where intimacy, memory, and structural violence converge, a central concern in Esteban La Rotta’s practice.
The compressed interior—three narrow beds pressed closely together, bordered by darkness and anchored by a single, restrained light—suggests bodies through their absence. The rumpled surfaces retain the trace of lived presence, turning the beds into stand-ins for individuals held within a shared condition. Intimacy here is unavoidable, but it is not entirely comforting; proximity becomes a form of constraint. This spatial compression echoes Esteban’s ongoing inquiry into how political and historical pressures are embedded not only in public narratives, but in private, everyday environments.
Within this charged domestic setting, the SpongeBob imagery on the pillow introduces a subtle but unsettling rupture. As a globally recognizable symbol of childhood innocence and mass culture, the cartoon figure feels out of place amid the heavy atmosphere of the room. Its presence suggests a child’s proximity—or the memory of one—while underscoring vulnerability rather than playfulness. In this way, the painting resists romanticizing family life, instead revealing how spaces meant for care are also shaped by precarity and exposure.
The SpongeBob pillow also gestures toward globalization and cultural import: a North American media icon embedded within a local, intimate context. This quiet collision mirrors Esteban’s interest in how external cultural narratives infiltrate domestic life without resolving the deeper social contradictions at play. The image is visible yet subdued, partially absorbed into the painterly surface, functioning less as pop imagery than as a fragment of memory filtered through time and affect.
Materially, the muted palette, layered brushwork, and softened edges resist clarity and resolution. Light reveals selectively rather than fully, mirroring the partial nature of memory and history. The beds—sites of rest, vulnerability, intimacy, and survival—become proxies for the body as a political entity, even in its absence.
Taken as a whole, the painting exemplifies Esteban La Rotta’s ability to stage conditions rather than narrate events, allowing personal memory, collective history, childhood, and global culture to quietly coexist within a single interior. The work does not explain or resolve these tensions; instead, it asks the viewer to inhabit them, reinforcing painting as a space where complexity is felt rather than simplified.
Esteban La Rotta
Mi Familia, 2025
oil on panel
48h x 60w in
121.92h x 152.40w cm
ELM001
Esteban La Rotta is an emerging artist from Bogotá, Colombia, whose practice uses painting as a vehicle for political and philosophical reflection. After completing his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, he has continued to deepen an inquiry into the histories, contradictions, and enduring violences that shape Colombian society and ripple through contemporary life.
Drawing from personal memory and the collective narratives of his home country, Esteban approaches painting as both an introspective and critical space—one where material, gesture, and color become tools to question how stories are built, sustained, and felt. His work often carries the imprint of lived experience, informed not only by studio practice but by attentive movement through the world. In Chicago, where he now lives and works, he can often be found walking the city’s streets, contemplating the subtle and urgent phenomena of daily life that continually shape his thinking and making.
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