AMANECER

This installation reflects on light as an agent of change. Developed specifically for Marquesa Gallery, it centres on two conceptual themes: The Topography of Displacement—depicted by a mass of suitcases representing the Venezuelan exodus—and The Threshold as a Window—with the light of dawn expressing the brightness of the future coming from one of the suitcases. The installation exemplifies the work of Marcos Temoche, a Venezuelan-Peruvian multidisciplinary artist based in Madrid, whose artistic practice explores identity construction as a constantly evolving process which is directly influenced by migration, diaspora and cultural heritage.

AMULETOS MONUMENTALES

A series of site-specific digital interventions, developed by Venezuelan-Peruvian artist Marcos Temoche for Marquesa Gallery, express the tension between the invisibility of exile and the persistence of cultural heritage, revolving around three core themes.

The first is light as pixels and data as memory: illumination ceases to be a physical source and manifests as screen light which is activated by citizen interaction and is capable of showing us a cultural heritage that remains hidden in the urban space. The second is the intangible baggage of migration, materialised in augmented reality digital sculptures that bring together beliefs, stories and cultural roots, transforming the city into a place of living memory. The third is a metaphor for the future and digital appropriation: a map of contemporary totems where ancestral tradition and the migratory experience coexist in a state of constant transformation, with the digital space identified as a threshold of reunion between origin and destination.