“On June 9, 2020, I received a video call. My father was dying in

Venezuela, after years spent relentlessly searching for drugs to treat his

chronic asthma.The last time I saw him was also my last visit to the country, in 2015.

How could I experience his death while in exile, thousands of miles away

distance, in a home that was not my own? I recount this violent and

painful: building a way to grieve, away from my family and my

my homeland."

My memory is fragile, my ties to my country, Venezuela, are volatile.”

In the exhibition at Florìda, Oleñka Carrasco presented several pieces and
performance taken from the first and third chapters of her project PATRIA. 

Patria. Chapter 1 by Oleñka Carrasco

Artist Bio

Oleñka Carrasco is a Venezuelan multidisciplinary artist based in Paris. Carrasco experiments and questions photography, writing and drawing. She is the winner of the prestigious PhotoFolioReview 2022 award and her work PATRIA was exhibited at Rencontres d'Arles 2023. She won the Cali FotoFest 22 in Colombia and the Rencontres Photographiques du 10e 2023 in Paris.