YONI BLESSING

May 9, 2022

It’s been a year since the last time I presented my work in the Au Joli Moi de Mai festival. Last year I showed my superimposed photographs of cities, forests and flowers. Works that represent the intangibility of memory, one of the two issues that I’m mainly concerned with.

This time I present part of my research on identity. Looking for the answers of what it means to be a woman, a migrant, a Latin-American, I discover in my body the home I have longed for so many times since my departure from Venezuela 22 years ago. The Gates of Life is a reunion with that lost homeland in the territory that is the body I inhabit.

RAÍCES ERRANTES

RAÍCES ERRANTES

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Goldrausch

Goldrausch

Goldrausch weckt die Sehnsucht, etwas Wertvolles zu finden. In dieser zweiten Ausgabe mit dem Titel Erfolg bringt die Kuratorin Daniela Hediger verschiedene Perspektiven auf den Triumph zusammen und stellt die Frage, wie wir Erfolg neu...

FATA MORGANA by beatriz eggli

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Some individuals and certain animals experience a strong attachment to their place of origin, their home, or any space that provides them with familiarity and security. After eleven years since my last visit home, I continue in the constant pursuit of rooting myself...