Los Muertos No Salen, 2016. installation image. University of Pennsylvania.
“Los Muertos No Salen” was a multimedia installation created at The University of Pennsylvania in 2016. This work is an example of a project that brings together sculpture, digital animation, projection, audio and photo based imagery as a yearning towards the artist’s mother’s home country of Venezuela. Family herstories are shared through the audio including hardships of immigration, higher education, overcoming poverty and women’s stores. The audio manuscript, sound and digital animations are accessible below.
Los Muertos No Salen, 2016. installation image. University of Pennsylvania.
Underground, 2016. video projection.
Looped video footage of sea lion exhibit at The Buffalo Zoo.
Afterimage, 2016. digital animation, no sound 1 min., 5 seconds. full screen viewing recommended
Based on the phenomenon of the afterimage, this work recalls a short but intense memory of the high noon sun in Anaco, Venezuela.
Select sculpture photos. 1953-1990.
Click for pdf of installation audio transcription and translation.
Cascading audio in the installation space is of the artist's mother recalling family herstory, immigration and cultural dynamics within Venezuela.
