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Still from The Perilous Journey of María Rosa Palacios, HD Video, 30:40
Exhibition
The Perilous Journey of María Rosa Palacios
23 Sep 2017 – 5 Nov 2017
Address
- 92 Plymouth St
- New York
New York - 11201
- United States
Smack Mellon is pleased to present The Perilous Journey of María Rosa Palacios, Karina Aguilera Skvirsky’s half-hour, performance-based film documenting her travel from Ecuador’s Chota highlands to the coastal town of Guayaquil.
About
The expedition serves as a re-creation of her great grandmother’s 1906 journey and an exploration of identity, representation, and ever-shifting boundaries of place and nationhood.
Skvirsky’s bicultural upbringing made her aware of the impossibility of a fixed identity. Leaving the US to live in Ecuador as a 10-year-old in the late 1970s solidified her interest in the differences between cultures, but more importantly, the similarities and crossovers inherent in global identities. Her art mines this terrain through the lens of her own ancestry by questioning the concept of belonging to a specific region, race, or culture.
