AdomicilioRetratos or Portraits On Demand is an art project based in Santiago, Chile.
The project consists of people ordering portraits painted in oil paints which are then delivered to them at home at a cost of $7.41 (USD). Interested parties contact the painters by email; the account is managed by our General Secretary, Patricio.
Patricio schedules the home visits and acts as our Community Manager for Instagram, which is the platform we use to show the project’s progress.

During the visits, the painters take photographs of the house and the person sitting for the portrait, which they keep for their records, as well as doing a sketch.
The person who is having their portrait done signs a contract agreeing to follow the project’s rules.
The painters paint the portrait and, three weeks later, they present the respective portrait to the client along with a certificate of authenticity.
The client is the sole owner of the work and cannot transfer ownership to anyone else.

All the paintings are done in oils on canvas; they are 30 x 40 cm, and both artists work on each painting, meaning they do not have a single, definitive creator.

After four months of visiting and documenting people at home, the project amounted to a total of 67 paintings and an extensive archive of domestic images. The paintings which came out of the project were exhibited at the Centro Cultural Parque Villaseca; the event was attended by those who had had their portraits painted, as well as other interested parties.

ADomicilioRetratos, as well as making us reflect on contemporary painting and its relevance in today’s society, also seeks to create a space for community and dialogue based around an event. The event is designed to bring together the person who had their portrait painted and their friends to talk about painting, without having to have any prior knowledge of art. The fact that the portraits are not expensive means that we are giving normal people the opportunity to acquire art.