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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
to the strangers i love deeply
to the strangers i love deeply is a textile installation exploring the artist's relationship to family; community and love through textiles as love gestures. The work includes delicate woven textiles with digitally printed family photographs of…
The Paths of Objects
The Paths of Objects presents a visual archive documenting forced displacements and migration dynamics traversed on foot. Beyond widespread diaspora notions; this project captures local phenomena through first-person experience. It reveals the…
The Million Bag Project
The Million(s) Bag Project is a lifelong project of drawing one bag per Venezuelan migrant; totaling 7.1 million bags. Starting in mid-2020; Venezuelan artist Francisca Sosa López draws a minimum of 250 bags daily. The repeating activity serves as…
The Jungle of Darién
The Jungle of Darién visually chronicles Juan Carlos Silva's harrowing passage through the Darién Gap; a treacherous stretch between Colombia and Panama. Painted in acrylic hues of lush green and earth tones; the work depicts migrants traversing a…
Shared Stories
Shared Stories is an installation by Romulo Martínez that reveals his profound engagement with cultural identity; social issues; migration; and shared human experiences. In this exhibition; Martínez draws upon his journey as an immigrant and taps…
Rites, Seeds, and Refuge
Rites, Seeds, and Refuge channels narratives of migration through vegetal metaphors. Lucía Pizzani crafts clay totems pressed with textures of corn; eucalyptus; and plants integral to her Venezuelan heritage. These sculptures stand as guardians of…
NatuUrban - A subnatural symphony of Miami
NatuUrban Symphony is an immersive sound art experience by Venezuelan-American artist Muu Blanco. Visitors step into a world where urban and natural landscapes merge through sound; exploring migration and identity. The exhibition space becomes a…
Migrants... on the Way to El Dorado
"In 'Migrants... on the Way to El Dorado,' Gustavo Zajac presents a series of works taken from the previous exhibition, as traveling or 'migrant' prints, printed using contemporary media. Half of them are worked with gold leaf and the other half are…
Mental Blanks
Mental Blanks reflects experiences shared by countless immigrants through a multi-channel video installation. Each screen shows nearly static photographs intervened by the artist. Memory as a dynamic; reconstructive process explores the ephemeral…
La Migrante
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…
How to Measure Time
How to Measure Time is a reflective exploration of existence and temporality by Korean-Venezuelan artist Suwon Lee. Through photography and mixed media; the series delves into cyclical patterns of life; from celestial rhythms to human experiences of…
Fragile Intangibilities
Fragile Intangibilities comprises 11 hand-sewn silk organza camping tents; each suffused with ink drawings inspired by Arthur's interviews with fellow immigrants. The work reaffirms diaspora as a living condition of resilience; family reunification;…
Fabricated Realities
"Fabricated Realities by Alejandro Rizzo is a series of staged photographs about the current socio-political and economic issues within the context of Venezuela. In this particular exhibition, two photographs from the series are displayed. One aims…
Crossing the Darien Gap
"Crossing the Darien Gap (2023) delves into the migrant crisis, where seemingly playful, colorful figures mask a deeper tragedy. 'Many perish or fall ill on the journey,' he explains. 'The skull represents death, the colors reflect cultural…