Oleñka Carrasco
Château Laurens
patria
vEnEzuela
On June 9, 2020, artist Oleñka Carrasco learned from a video call that her father had died.
The “Patria” series is a moving account of this bereavement, of the identity issues it raises, and more generally of the history of Venezuela and its exiles since 2015, the date of the artist’s last trip to her native country. It’s an artistic approach, but also an emotional one.
This work, which combines both writing and visual art, enables Oleñka to experience her father’s death despite the distance that separates them (he died in Venezuela, she was confined to Paris, in the midst of a pandemic), thus renewing the ties with her family and homeland that had been weakened by exile.
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Olenka Carrasco is a Venezuelan visual artist, writer and researcher who lives and works in Paris.
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Her work explores notions of memory, exile and mourning, combining family archives, photography, text and installation. She questions intimate and collective narratives linked to migration and political violence. Her deeply embodied work builds bridges between personal history and the fractures of our contemporary world.