será tiempo de volver — Giuliana Marmo

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Será tiempo de volver
2020

Photographic assemblage and postal exchange

Work selected for the collective exhibition of the I LAD Contemporary Art Prize, exhibited in Galeria Freites, Caracas, Venezuela in May 2022 - More

Exhibited in Over and Over at Haus der Statistik, Berlin, 2023 - More

Public Art │Participatory Actions

Exile entails a constant search for images that are shared between the homeland and the place one is exiled to, a way to still feel connected to a scene registered in our memory. The sea, in its minimalistic horizontality, simplifies what surrounds us into an image easily linked to that place in our memories: it is not the same sea, but for an instant, almost imperceptible, one can experience it in the same way. Será tiempo de volver is a line of the horizon collectively built by Venezuelan migrants spread across the world, who took pictures of the sea in their host countries, and then received somebody else's picture as a postcard.
Together, they build a portrait of the sea, experienced with their feet in the water but with closed eyes, as a space felt with their body yet envisaged in their memory.