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#Darién
Two glam queens embark on a surreal journey into the Darien jungle, confronting haunting experiences and personal challenges that reshape their understanding of life and redefine their sense of self. (IMDb) "“I was seeing how more and more…
#MapsofDisplacement
"Maps of Displacement is Cassandra Mayela's first solo exhibition in New York City. Mayela studies Venezuelan diasporas through the medium of textiles, specifically garments with significant past lives. Maps of Displacement is an ongoing…
A Disco Ball Between Us, an Ode to Jafari S. Allen
Willie Quintana singing with a disco ball hovering over him, and MPeach singing in the background during the Carnival de El Callao celebrations on March 8, 2024 at Friends and Lovers in Brooklyn, NY.
A Suspended Space
A Suspended Space is a VR environment recreating the artist's grandmother's bedroom in Caracas. The room floats like an island on water; representing both the Venezuelan-Caribbean coastline and the inaccessibility of this space; only reachable…
Adriático
In Adriático, poetry unites the separated islands and provokes new imaginary cartographies, based on the symbolic synthesis of distant and distinct places that maintain their beautiful original names and live on in memory and affection. Each name is…
Against the Regime of the Fluent
How long can you hold your breath and follow a string to the bottom of a waterfall? Contra el régimen de lo fluido asks how you would fall knowing you must resist. These poems are mnemonic screenshots of the author’s request for affirmative asylum to…
Aguacero
“Aguacero” is a richly poetic urban track where Irepelusa and Veztalone blend glowing metaphors —“little lights” become magic— with a sensual, emotive invitation, merging nostalgia, rhythm, and the sense of an emotional downpour.
Algo habla con mi voz
Winner of the Universidad Central Novel Contest in 2019
*"How does a Venezuelan migrant survive in Bogotá while besieged by depression and the voice of madness, trapped in a fractured marriage, with a child who dries her tears, and whose only source…
Alternate Reality (Santa Paula, El Cafetal, Caurimare, Caracas)
Alternate Reality (Santa Paula, El Cafetal, Caurimare, Caracas) is a video collage by Camila Salcedo utilizing 3D drawings; Google satellite photos; Google user 360° images; and YouTube videos to recreate the neighborhoods she grew up in around…
Amar a Olga
"He lives with Marina in an apartment where the sound of police and ambulance sirens echoes daily. The country he finds himself in has become a state of turmoil, mirroring the deterioration of his weary relationship. Their breakup accelerates as he…
Arepa Viuda
Arepa Viuda is a photographic series documenting undocumented Venezuelans making arepas in European food markets; beginning in Helsinki; Finland. This sculptural work of mixing; kneading and shaping dough reveals the history of an emigrated people;…
Argonautas de la octava isla
Actresses: Cristina Martínez and Carolina BelandiaPerformed at: La Escalera de Jacob, Madrid, 2018
*"This is a short-format theatrical proposal born from the intention of bringing to light the issues swept under the rug—cases of human rights…
Arqueología sonámbula
An experimental book that, through autofiction and other literary mechanisms, explores the ruin and deterioration of a revolutionary experiment in Venezuela, reactivating another form of utopian desire. Juan Cristóbal Castro writes Arqueología…
Asignaciones para maternar
Mejías constructs narratives in which the silence of the domestic body—engaged in the repetitive performance of everyday tasks—comes into dialogue. Drawing from the autobiographical, the artist creates images that articulate her concerns with the…
Atrás queda la tierra
A novel that tells us to not look away from the horror that everybody who is forced to migrate has to live. While her world crumbles completely, the narrator from Atrás queda la tierra connects a series of memories, words and images, to write a…
Aunque me extinga
"A poetic song of migration, uprootedness, and love as resistance against pain and silence. Aunque me extinga is a book written from the perspective of migration, foreignness, and displacement, woven together through desire and love as barricades…
Belén
"Belen, The echoes of a woman dedicated to the music of her people.
How to film the absence of a character that during her life filled with music all the spaces she visited? This seems to have been the dilemma of director Adriana Vila before filming…
How to film the absence of a character that during her life filled with music all the spaces she visited? This seems to have been the dilemma of director Adriana Vila before filming…
Caracas en el 2000
A heartfelt love letter that evokes moments of joy and innocence in early 21st-century Caracas.
Caribeños
Caribeños offers an intimate perspective on the migration of Caribbean peoples to other parts of the Americas. Its first episode focuses on Chile, drawing from the author's own story to explore the lived experiences of Caribbean individuals shaped by…
Carnival de El Callao at Friends and Lovers
Musical performance by MPeach, Tambor Ellas, and Willie Quintana while honoring the Carnival de El Callao festivities at Friends and Lovers in Brookyln, NY on March 8, 2024.