PATRIA - Oleñka Carrasco
"On June 9, 2020, I received 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 yelled at me. I found him dead."
On June 9, 2020, artist Oleñka Carrasco learns from a video call that her father has died. The book Patria is the moving account of this bereavement, of the questions of identity 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.
A human experience par excellence, the confrontation with death is recounted here through the artistic re-appropriation of family archives; photographs, videos, audios... thousands of documents sent by WhatsApp on which the artist intervenes and creates works in themselves. In addition, Oleñka Carrasco takes photographs of her home in France, the "lent house", which she transforms, manipulates and alters using a typewriter. The typed text dialogues with the images and, as the story unfolds, seems to reveal and intensify the mystery of these human lives.
Published by The Eyes, 2023,
29.7 cm x 21 cm, 96 pages, new
ISBN : 979-10-92727-55-5
"On June 9, 2020, I received 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 yelled at me. I found him dead."
On June 9, 2020, artist Oleñka Carrasco learns from a video call that her father has died. The book Patria is the moving account of this bereavement, of the questions of identity 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.
A human experience par excellence, the confrontation with death is recounted here through the artistic re-appropriation of family archives; photographs, videos, audios... thousands of documents sent by WhatsApp on which the artist intervenes and creates works in themselves. In addition, Oleñka Carrasco takes photographs of her home in France, the "lent house", which she transforms, manipulates and alters using a typewriter. The typed text dialogues with the images and, as the story unfolds, seems to reveal and intensify the mystery of these human lives.
Published by The Eyes, 2023,
29.7 cm x 21 cm, 96 pages, new
ISBN : 979-10-92727-55-5
"On June 9, 2020, I received 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 yelled at me. I found him dead."
On June 9, 2020, artist Oleñka Carrasco learns from a video call that her father has died. The book Patria is the moving account of this bereavement, of the questions of identity 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.
A human experience par excellence, the confrontation with death is recounted here through the artistic re-appropriation of family archives; photographs, videos, audios... thousands of documents sent by WhatsApp on which the artist intervenes and creates works in themselves. In addition, Oleñka Carrasco takes photographs of her home in France, the "lent house", which she transforms, manipulates and alters using a typewriter. The typed text dialogues with the images and, as the story unfolds, seems to reveal and intensify the mystery of these human lives.
Published by The Eyes, 2023,
29.7 cm x 21 cm, 96 pages, new
ISBN : 979-10-92727-55-5
