Traces of Erosion in Koekenstad (Las huellas de la erosión en Koekenstad)
Creator: Sabrina Montiel-Soto
Title: Traces of Erosion in Koekenstad (Las huellas de la erosión en Koekenstad)
Date: 2015
Language: Spanish; French; English
Description: 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. Drawing on materials and references from both Venezuela and the Belgian city of Antwerp—known as the “City of Biscuits”—the work examines processes of erosion, colonial history, and the exchange of knowledge and materials. Through this interplay, the exhibition creates a visual and sensory journey that connects territories, scents, and memories, evoking the layered legacies of cultural fusion.
Subject: Venezuelan diaspora; Installation art; Cultural fusion; Colonialism; Found objects (Art); Collage--Technique; Sculpture; Photography, Artistic; Memory; Amberes (Belgium)
Type: Installation art, collage, sculpture, artistic photography, and video performance
Format: Multidisciplinary art installation
Rights: External resource.
©Sabrina Montiel-Soto, all rights reserved.
Documented by: Archivo Venezuela
Relation:
Review by Sandra Caltagirone in l’Art Même n°67, 2015 / extract
"The artist brings the perspective of an Indigenous woman from a country whose history has been deeply shaped by colonization to bear on a Flemish city historically enriched by its colonial past—a gaze, however, infused with humor and subtle poetry. Las huellas de la erósion en Koekenstad unfolds as a narrative in which erosion acts as a transformative force, bringing about a fusion between Venezuela and Koekenstad, the “City of Biscuits,” a nickname for Antwerp that recalls the many biscuit factories whose sweet aromas once wafted through the very heart of the city." (English translation by Archivo Venezuela from the original French text published on the artist's website)
Interview with exhibition curator Philippe Braem ([by'ro] desk for contemporary art, Ghent, BE) and artist Sabrina Montiel-Soto (Maracaibo, VEN).
Artist’s website
Identifier: VDA-VA-020
Collection: Visual Arts
Tags: Antwerp, Art and Memory, Art installation, collage, colonial history, contemporary Venezuelan art, cultural erosion, cultural exchange, cultural fusion, cultural geography, fine art photography, Koekenstad, Sabrina Montiel-Soto, sculpture, Venezuelan diaspora, video performance
Citation: Sabrina Montiel-Soto, Traces of Erosion in Koekenstad (Las huellas de la erosión en Koekenstad), 2015, accessed September 22, 2026, https://archivovenezuela.com/en/items/show/1142