La Migrante

Creator: Yiniba Castillo (Maracaibo, 1993)

Title: La Migrante

Date: Since 2019

Language: Spanish

Description: La migrante is an artistic activism project centered on the development of the migrant creator’s subjectivity. Through photographs and texts, she shares her experience of otherness within a context different from her place of origin. In this process of discovery, she weaves together her past and present to reflect on the self-exploration of subjectivity and its complexities as they intersect with race, class, ableism, and migrant motherhood.

Subject: Art—Political aspects; Photography—Social aspects; Identity (Philosophical concept); Emigration and immigration—Social aspects; Women immigrants—Psychology; Motherhood—Social aspects; Race discrimination; Social classes; People with disabilities—Social conditions; Self-perception; Chile; Venezuela; Castillo, Yiniba.

Type: Image

Format: Visual arts (autoethnographic self-portrait)

Rights: External resources

Relation:
The Migrant (Yiniba Castillo, 2025)



The Migrant (Yiniba Castillo, 2025)



The Migrant (Yiniba Castillo, 2025)



The Migrant (Yiniba Castillo, 2025)

Interview

"I unconsciously adapted my personality to be accepted," Yiniba Carolina Castillo in conversation with Emiliana Pariente, La Tercera, August 31, 2023. 

Interview

Yiniba Castillo, Venezuelan feminist and migrant: "The pain of the border is carried in the body all the time," interview by Macarena Segovia Quinteros, Observatorio Género y Equidad, November 29, 2022.

Op-ed

Yiniba Castillo, "Venezuelan Migration: A Radical Decision, Seen from Within," Open Democracy, April 6, 2021.


Consulte aquí la versión en español de este registro

Identifier: AV003

Collection: Visual Arts

Tags: ableism and migration, artistic activism, Chile, class and social inequality, feminist art, intersectionality, migrant motherhood, migrant subjectivity, migrant women artists, Migration and identity, Migration narratives, otherness, photography and identity, race and migration, self-exploration, Venezuela, Yiniba Castillo

Citation: Yiniba Castillo (Maracaibo, 1993), La Migrante, Sinc, accessed September 22, 2026, https://archivovenezuela.com/en/items/show/1026