Verónica Marcano
A flat gold suitcase, seen square on, centred on a deep indigo ground. Inside it a disc of gold leaf carries dark diagonal bars across its face, like the griddle marks on a flatbread.

Emigration

salí con mi arepa debajo del brazo

A flat gold suitcase, seen square on, centred on a deep indigo ground. Inside it a disc of gold leaf carries dark diagonal bars across its face, like the griddle marks on a flatbread.

The series she is finishing now, and the work she wants to exhibit as a group: the migration out of Venezuela, the disappeared, and the people killed in the protests against the government between 2014 and 2024. Gold leaf runs through all of it, and it is not decoration.

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Year
2025
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Series
Venezuela
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The body in movement

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