Walking in Someone Else’s Shoes

The Aluna Art Foundation, in collaboration with the Instituto Ramón Llull in Barcelona, presented Walking in Someone Else's Shoes: Identities in Transit. Curated by Adriana Herrera and Willy Castellanos, the exhibition consisted of contemporary works that are centered on transhumance as a method and that reflect the restless passage of individuals and communities going through turbulent times. Many works included the concrete representation of the shoe and a poetic of this object associated with individual transits, with intimate forms of memory and, in equal manner, with the resources of collective history, including migration routes, the traces left by mass exodus or a psycho-geographic vision of the landscape of disappearances. The exhibition presented crossroads that, to a certain extent emerge from the entire American continent, given that most of the works were created by artists from different generations and periods in several cities that expand from Buenos Aires to New York. Their visions, nonetheless, reach beyond the local and expand through global transits at a time of uncertainty in which a new nomadism spreads out. The curatorship proposed to accompany the works with very intimate texts in which each artist narrates the stories of the transits represented. The artists participating in the exhibition were: Graciela Sacco (Argentina), Patricio Reig (Argentina/Spain), Marina Font (Argentina/US), Roberto Huarcaya (Peru), Cecilia Paredes (Peru/US), Luis F. Peláez (Colombia), Linda Pongutá (Colombia), Luis Roldán (Colombia/US), Manuel Zapata (Colombia/US), Andrés Michelena (Venezuela/US), Felipe Ehrenberg (Mexico/US), Mario Bellatín (Peru/Colombia), Regina José Galindo (Guatemala), Ronald Morán (Salvador), Walterio Iraheta (Salvador), Hugo Moro (Cuba/EEUU), Gustavo Gavilondo (Cuba/US), Antuan (Cuba/US), Willy Castellanos (Cuba/US), Humberto Castro (Cuba/US), Debra Holt (US), Patricia Schnall Gutiérrez (US), Alexandra Rowley (US), and Xavier G-Solis (Spain). Source: Adriana Herrera, Writer and Independent Curator.