Francisca Sosa López: …Y Nada, Agarré Mis Peroles Y Me Fuí

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"My practice is based on the complicated relationship I have with my country. Reflecting on issues concerning Venezuela, particularly the migration crisis, I produce work based on my personal feelings, reactions, disappointments and affections to my country. From a conceptual lifelong project of drawing one bag per Venezuelan migrant (6 million migrants to date) to a mixture of abstract and figurative paintings, I explore how the idea of a country travels with its people and the various ways it may be portrayed. Memories and music give way to feelings which I interpret through color and gesture. These visual expressions form my own sensations and expressions of “my home”. Materiality has become central in the work, creating paintings from discarded wood, paper and cardboard I explore the idea of reconstruction. The concept of making something beautiful from an uneven surface and accumulated trash, is a repeated action that I use as practice for when we can pick up the debris, and rebuild Venezuela."