by Vani | Jul 18, 2020 | Vist Projects, Visualities
In the Ecuadorian region of Valle del Chota there is a town where boys and girls become stars. It remains in a place that was once known as the “Valley of Blood and Death” because the indigenous people, forced to work in the sun on sugar and cane farms,...
by Vani | Jul 18, 2020 | Vist Projects, Visualities
The poppy is cultivated in the mountains of the State of Guerrero, which will later become heroin. But daily life there has nothing to do with the narco universe: it is the same as that of any rural Mexican community. There are no pickups or armed people on the...
by Vani | Jul 16, 2020 | Vist Projects, Visualities
More than a century ago, it was the neighborhood of São Paulo (Brazil) wealthiest families. Of that splendor only remain the structures and the peeling facades of the old mansions usurped by consumers. Rooms with cracked walls, boarded-up windows, sheetless...
by Vani | Jul 15, 2020 | Vist Projects, Visualities
“Our mechanical genius dates back to yesterday, while floral mechanics has been around for thousands of years,” says Belgian poet and essayist Maurice Maeterlinck, who lived in the first half of the 20th century, in his book The Intelligence of...
by Vani | Jul 6, 2020 | Vist Projects, Visualities
Mayra Da Silva is a visual artist and communicator. Pablo Albarenga is a photojournalist. They were joined by the call for Africamericanos for audiovisual projects on Afro-descendant communities. They presented Afrouruguayos, with the idea of building a new...
by Vani | Jun 27, 2020 | Vist Projects, Visualities
What would Christian saints be like if they had been born on the Colombian Pacific coast? What would their lives be like? Their houses? Their rituals? Yeison Riascos knows it: “If San José had been born in Buenaventura, he would have been one more fisherman or...