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Hybrid book by Venezuelan writer Fedosy Santaella (Puerto Cabello, 1970), resident in Mexico City since 2017, published by AB ediciones in 2023. Combining diary, essay, and chronicle, the work reflects on the function of notebooks in the writer's…
Te vas
A heartfelt tribute to the Venezuelan diaspora, reflecting immigrants’ nostalgia and courage, filmed across global cities to embody both pain and hope of departure.
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…
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…
Tiempos feroces
Fierce Times can be read as an intimate and essential diary of a country crumbling. From everyday anecdotes to political analysis, with lucidity but also with humor and tenderness, Padrón investigates and records reality, always seeking to tell it…
Escribir afuera: cuentos de intemperies y querencias
A woman travels to France to seek family roots in a small town, which will allow her to obtain a foreign passport to escape Venezuela; another visits the Museum of Innocence in Istanbul and, upon seeing the objects that recount the lives in a novel…
En las ruinas
The death that results from the reunion of an old group of friends, the final days of a writer shortly before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the boy who sees his cousin and playmate disappear, or the old woman who begins to lose her memory…
Salvar la frontera: muestra de cuentos de autores venezolanos migrantes
Contemporary Venezuelan literature is largely the literature of migrant writers. For decades—and for various reasons—Venezuelan writers have sought to settle in various parts of the world, with the United States, Spain, and other Latin American…
Happening
A traffic accident and a hit-and-run will unleash situations worthy of an existential thriller. Álex Kantor thus begins a journey to the arid landscapes of the Gulf of Cariaco; a journey toward his memory, his conscience, and his damnation. There, he…
Lugares abandonados: antología personal
A serene gaze confirms the permanence of the ruin, its beauty, and the shadow of what is no longer. Each word has been measured in a frame that dignifies the invoked image and the word that names it. Dignity in the broken bones of the mother, of the…
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…
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…
Crema Paraíso
Emiliano receives a lucrative offer from a German production company to take part in a television show. The only condition is that his father must accompany him—which is no easy task, since the man shows signs of dementia, with delusions of grandeur.…
Dear parent or guardian
A body just beginning to define itself discovers the inadequacy of imposed language. Though it rebels and implodes, the machinery it opposes is a shadow that spreads—an unanswerable question and, ultimately, a sentence. In Dear Parent or Guardian,…
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…
Study of the Raft
"In Study of the Raft, Leonora Simonovis's poems weave the outer world of a failed political revolution in her native country, Venezuela, with an inner journey into the memories of migration and exile, of a home long gone, and of family relations,…
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…