We Knew the World in Fragments of Color

We Knew the World in Fragments of Color displays on private migration from Venezuela to the United States. Through staged pictures and handcrafted costumes, it explores reminiscence, fragmentation, diaspora, and belonging by way of color and symbolism.

We Knew the World in Fragments of Color displays on Victoria Ruiz’s expertise of being born in Venezuela throughout political turmoil and leaving her native nation for the United States at a younger age.

Utilising handcrafted full-body fits — drawing from Latin American cultural symbolism, spirituality, and a robust chromatic language — the artist phases a sequence of pictures by which the topics convey which means in opposition to a colored backdrop.

Across this sequence, she represents successive phases of Venezuela’s latest actuality, every carrying its distinct historic and emotional weight. Meanwhile, by way of performative self-representation, her inside world unfolds as one formed by fragmentation and pressure ensuing from displacement.

The work traces her try to reconstruct the scattered fragments of her passage throughout geographies and states of being, formed by nostalgia and by the persistent scrutiny positioned upon migrant id — significantly that of the Venezuelan diaspora within the United States.

Meaning is embedded by way of richly layered symbols, from floral decisions and costume particulars to a palette alive with color and shadow. Dreamlike imagery unfolds by way of the angle of a kid suspended between worlds, capturing the quiet shifts of hope and uncertainty that accompany the expertise of immigration; a perspective by which every thing feels acquainted and unusual directly.

In this sense, reminiscence is reimagined as fractured but luminous: like shards of tinted glass refracting id, resilience, and religion. The work is a meditation on fragmentation as a situation of migration that doesn’t search coherence however quite embraces multiplicity, suggesting that belonging is just not recovered however frequently assembled.

Through a kaleidoscope of reminiscence, displacement, and spirituality, Ruiz displays on how life between worlds reshapes notion, and color itself turns into a language of survival and belonging.