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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…
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;…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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;…
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…
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…
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…
#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…
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…
Outside texts = Textos por fuera
Outside Texts is a collection of poems that interrogate themselves, the Spanish language, the poetic self, and the author's personal geographies within and outside of Venezuela and Argentina. Animating the texts in this book is the experience of…
Liubliana
Ljubljana is the name of a city, but also the memory of a passion; the secret hiding place the desperate trust in; the only refuge of hope. Ljubljana is all of that and much more. Like the book the reader holds in their synergy of life, an amalgam of…
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…
La rara: una comedia con alma
"Lucía turns eighteen surrounded by her lifelong friends and three close figures: her official boyfriend, her true love, and a secret lover. But it is only when she blows out her eighteen candles that she first discovers La Rara.
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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…