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“On June 9, 2020, I got a call. On this side of the Atlantic, it must have been ten o’clock—yes, it must have been ten o’clock. ‘He’s dead,’ she shouted at me. ‘I found him dead.’”
On June 9, 2020, artist Oleñka Carrasco learned via a video call that her father had passed away. The book *Patria* is a deeply moving account of this loss, the questions of identity it raises, and, more broadly, the history of Venezuela and its exiles since 2015, the year of the artist’s last trip to her homeland.
The ultimate human experience, the confrontation with death is recounted here through the artistic reappropriation of family archives—photographs, videos, audio recordings… thousands of documents sent via WhatsApp, which the artist reworks to create works of art in their own right. In addition, Oleñka Carrasco takes photographs of her home in France, the “borrowed house”—images she transforms, manipulates, and alters using a typewriter. The typed text engages with the images and seems, as the story unfolds, to reveal the mystery of these human lives while intensifying it.
Published by The Eyes, 2023,
29.7 cm 21 cm, 96 pages, like new
ISBN 979-10-92727-55-5
“On June 9, 2020, I got a call. On this side of the Atlantic, it must have been ten o’clock—yes, it must have been ten o’clock. ‘He’s dead,’ she shouted at me. ‘I found him dead.’”
On June 9, 2020, artist Oleñka Carrasco learned via a video call that her father had passed away. The book *Patria* is a deeply moving account of this loss, the questions of identity it raises, and, more broadly, the history of Venezuela and its exiles since 2015, the year of the artist’s last trip to her homeland.
The ultimate human experience, the confrontation with death is recounted here through the artistic reappropriation of family archives—photographs, videos, audio recordings… thousands of documents sent via WhatsApp, which the artist reworks to create works of art in their own right. In addition, Oleñka Carrasco takes photographs of her home in France, the “borrowed house”—images she transforms, manipulates, and alters using a typewriter. The typed text engages with the images and seems, as the story unfolds, to reveal the mystery of these human lives while intensifying it.
Published by The Eyes, 2023,
29.7 cm 21 cm, 96 pages, like new
ISBN 979-10-92727-55-5
