A STUDY OF DUST

This series began when the inevitability of my departure from Venezuela became tangible. After years of active protests and political struggle, of burying our dead, and fighting for the imprisoned and so much hardship, I slowly began my farewell.

 I turned our life of “insilio” – a beautiful Spanish word that means an exile within, a sense of unbelonging in our own country - to a performance centered around the body/ space relationship we developed with our homes and in our country, as it shifted from sanctuary [home] to cell [lockdown]. I felt a deep need to document my movements, my familiar spaces and objects during this farewell.

The natural life of this series led me to create this book, a trasnsportable way to carry the things we had to leave behind.

PHOTOS OF THE BOOK: Diana Espin (@dianaespin)