Le chaos qui me donne la vie. Atlas d’un pays imaginé
Oleñka Carrasco & La Chica
Created jointly through image and music, this project unfolds as a sensory journey through exile, where visual and sonic languages move beyond borders and connect distant territories. It takes root in El Callao, Venezuela, a region shaped by Caribbean migrations linked to the gold-mining industry. Carnival, calypso, and Creole culture embody the living memory of these movements and exchanges, now set against one of the largest contemporary displacement crises, with nearly 7.9 million Venezuelans having left their country.
The project is structured in four chapters, developed across three territories—Guadeloupe, Trinidad and Tobago, and French Guiana—as well as a fourth, imagined territory: Venezuela itself. Each chapter becomes a space for research and reconnection, where we sought, through sounds, bodies, and rituals, traces of what still binds us to our homeland, preserved through memory and sensation.
These journeys form a sensitive cartography woven from echoes, correspondences, and displacements. Moving between proximity and distance, presence and absence, the project explores what endures, transforms, or shifts when one lives away from their native land. It offers an open-ended narrative in which the experience of exile is reassembled through fragments, suspended between imagination and memory.
curator Fondation Swiss Life
partners Fondation Swiss Life, Agence PAM, Pro Image Service
artistic advisor Emilia Genuardi, Stéphane Amiel
price Swiss Life à 4 mains 2026-2027
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