Saludos a Nadie

(New York, 2020)

Saludos a Nadie (2019-2020) is an installation room comprising archival pictures and sculptures. The room re-contextualizes vernacular traditions and photographs from the Aleman-Gonzales family documenting parties, labor, official portraits and leisure. These events illustrate the first three decades that my family experienced in Caracas, Venezuela. By 1955, my grandparents, Lilo and Carmelo, fled to South America from Las Palmas island following the end of the Spanish Civil War at the onset of the fascist Francoist regime. Six decades later the generation they raised along with their children would be forced to emigrate to eight different latitudes, as a result of the Chavista Venezuelan Dictatorship. Their story narrates the genesis of an itinerant family. With this project I wanted to preserve and value a narrative in the midst of a vanishing act as our bonds weaken in the distance.