Alternate Reality (Santa Paula, El Cafetal, Caurimare, Caracas)

Creator: Camila Salcedo

Title: Alternate Reality (Santa Paula, El Cafetal, Caurimare, Caracas)

Publisher: Khyber Centre for the Arts

Date: 2020

Language: Spanish

Description: 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 Caracas. The work examines the Venezuelan government's banning of Google Streetview; creating a digital gap and challenging her ability to travel back since she has never returned home.

Subject: Digital art; Memory in art; Venezuelan diaspora; Virtual environments

Type: Virtual reality video

Format: Virtual environment

Rights: External resource

Documented by: Gabriella Wright & Archivo Venezuela

Relation:

Review

Exhibition Overview

Identifier: VDA-VA-011

Collection: Visual Arts

Tags: community, digital mapping, displacement, government restrictions, home, homesickness, memories, Venezuelan migration

Citation: Camila Salcedo, Alternate Reality (Santa Paula, El Cafetal, Caurimare, Caracas), Khyber Centre for the Arts, 2020, accessed September 22, 2026, https://archivovenezuela.com/en/items/show/1132