Overly Past

This project is a love letter to my childhood and an intimate act of resistance against forgetting. As an artist who migrated from Venezuela to Mexico, I chose to reconstruct fragmented memories and emotions, shaped by migration, familial distance, and inherited silences, through self-portraits, intervened archival material, and art direction. I fabricate imagined moments I did not live, those that happened before I was born or after I migrated. My work is a reflection on the sorrow caused by the physical absence of my mother and the geographical distance from my father. It is also shaped by Venezuela’s sociopolitical context. From this vulnerability as a migrant in Mexico, I find in my memories a visual language to embrace the past and uncover the resilience of the present. This project consists of photographs and a 58-page photobook.