In Big Booby, Joana Vasconcelos chooses to amplify an ordinary household object – the traditional kitchen pot-holder – until she manages to annul the perception of the initial referral, which is evocative of the abstract paintings of Kenneth Noland and Frank Stella. If, on the one hand, the shapes, the materials and the techniques resorted to confer some sense of familiarity and comfort, on the other, the monumentality of scale, together with the forced anchorage of the piece by the six hooks which secure it to the wall, seem to want to transfer an epic and tragic substratum to domestic functions.  The title refers to the painting “The Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies”, from the fictitious master Van Clomp, popularised in the British sitcom “‘Allo ‘Allo”.