migration
BAGGAGE/LUGGAGE. MATERIAL AND SYMBOLIC MEANINGS IN DISPLACEMENT EXPERIENCES
En las últimas décadas, Venezuela ha vivido una de las crisis migratorias más grandes de la historia contemporánea, con casi ocho millones de personas forzadas a dejar su país. Este ensayo entrelaza historia política, filosofía del refugio y estudios visuales para explorar el impacto de este desplazamiento en la subjetividad individual y colectiva, enfocándose especialmente en los vínculos entre memoria, identidad y materialidad.
CRISTIÁN SALINEROS: THERE WERE NO LIMITS BEFORE THIS, ONLY TIME
Salineros works literally and symbolically with abjection: he uses the corpse or feces of migratory birds to invoke a series of borders—both physical and virtual—which are transgressed by the effect of time.
“HOLES IN MAPS” EXPLORES THEMES OF GLOBALIZATION, MOBILITY AND BORDERS
«Holes in Maps» explores themes of globalization, mobility and borders by examining ways in which personal narrative, social critique, trade, nationalism, identity and citizenship intersect. The artworks in this show challenge maps certainty and stability, exploring the immense gulf between lines on paper and lived experience – between symbols and their referents. Maps may reveal political and geographical realities, but what do they conceal?