La Guajira

La Guajira – 2017


Installation, mixed media on paper, variable dimensions

La Guajira is the result of a field research in the Guajira Peninsula, on the border between Colombia and Venezuela. During this time, I explored the territory, documenting the landscape and producing visual notes that later shaped an installation composed of drawings, notes, and silkscreens.

The project explores the border not only as a geopolitical limit but as a tool for territorial control and transformation. In the peninsula, the ancestral mobility practices of the Wayuu communities coexist and resist against the restrictions imposed by contemporary borders.

Material traces — tire tracks, debris caught in the vegetation — and graphic signs of Venezuelan consumer products form a visual archaeology of everyday life in the region. La Guajira does not aim for literal documentation but rather opens a reflection on how power dynamics, displacement, and informal economies are inscribed onto the materiality of the landscape, shaping a space of symbolic and economic struggle.

This project is part of an ongoing series of works addressing the tensions between landscape, border control, and forced mobility.