I PACKED A HOME DOOR (2022)

I packed a home door is an installtion piece made out of found objects. A tower of suitcases freestands on top a door, a fragile red ribbon wraps around it, like a gift.

This piece is pulled from an specific memory of December 5th of 2015, the day me and my family emigrated from Venezuela. That day, and the days leading to it were a forced compression of lives, our own ones, being folded, dump and packed into roughly 15 suitcases. In my memory I remember this moment in The Maiquetia International Airport and seeing those multiples. This piece is gesturing to this moment, continuing to reshape, to understand what it really meant.

The ribbon presses collected venezuelan passport copies of different family members. With their eyes and identity numbers covered, like criminals. For us the passport mean marks our inability to move, but being forced to. You're marked with the notion of a diaspora which is rejected in many cases.

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