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Traces of Erosion in Koekenstad (Las huellas de la erosión en Koekenstad)
Sabrina Montiel-Soto’s Traces of Erosion in Koekenstad is a multidisciplinary installation that interweaves found objects, collage, sculpture, artistic photography, and video performance to explore history, memory, and cultural transformation.…
Universo 11 (2023) and ¿Cuánto cuesta el cielo? (2023)
Through the exhibitions Universo 11 (2023) and ¿Cuánto cuesta el cielo? (2023), Pirela explores the notion of home—initially rooted in origin and place of birth, and later redefined through the experience of migration. Viewing these two works…
Tags: Afro-Latin American art, Art and social critique, Chile, Chilean migration, Decolonial aesthetics., Home and origin, Identity and belonging, Intersectionality in Latin America, Latin American contemporary art, Migrant experiences, Migration and home, Migration narratives, Nation-state and identity, Racialized bodies, Racialized citizenship, Structural inequality, Venezuela, Venezuelan diaspora, Visual arts and displacement, Wiki Pirela
Venezuela country of absences
Venezuela country of absences is a series of GIFs created by Andrea Dudier for Instagram as an act of catharsis. She uses the GIF format analogously to poetry; as a revolutionary visual tool for liberation through images of decomposition. These 6-8…
Venezuela, more faith than fear
The digital illustration, Venezuela, more faith than fear, layers written text and a drawn Venezuelan flag over a stylized background that includes a digital cut-out of a photographed person on a horse in rich red, yellow and blue tones. It conveys…
Wake
Wake is a bilingual poem reading performance by Sebastián Rodríguez y Vasti. The title serves as a metaphor for mourning; memorializing; and water—physical waterways; emotional drowning; and tears. Sebastián reflects on growing up near the water and…
Desafiando al Coloso: Tres Actos
Performance and installation by Venezuelan multidisciplinary artist Deborah Castillo (Caracas, 1971), presented at the Museo Universitario del Chopo (UNAM), Mexico City, June 15–26, 2022. The work consists of three consecutive actions in which the…
Tags: caudillo, feminism, Installation, Mexico, monuments, Performance, political art, UNAM