Giuliana Racco's exhibition Crossroads is the result of her extensive artistic practice focused on mobility, border processes and the longings of migrant peoples. Her multidisciplinary approach includes fieldwork, archival research, material production and experimentation with a view to challenging boundaries and cultural constructions of identity, inclusion/exclusion, and power dynamics.
Since its inception, Racco has participated in the project TOGETHER APART as an artist, researcher, and consultant. She has exhibited her work, conducted fieldwork and collaborated in the design of the educational program. She has also organized workshops for refugee artists and conducted research in various contexts, such as the integration of Syrians in Sweden, Venezuelans in Colombia, and Maghrebis in the European Mediterranean.
Cúcuta, the main city on the border between Venezuela and Colombia, represents a significant setting for the exhibition and a privileged context for its presentation. The Venezuelan crisis and the armed conflict triggered intense migratory flows, transforming the city into a place where issues of mobility and coexistence are closely related. With a participatory approach, Racco's work builds bridges between art and society and calls for reflection, transformation and action in migrant communities and their places of destination.
Crossroads highlights Racco's trajectory and commitment to mobility and borders; provides a platform for dialogue and participation; fosters a critical understanding of migration as a phenomenon that requires co-responsibility; and encourages reconsideration of perceptions and narratives, while pointing to Cúcuta as the epicenter of important socio-demographic changes.
Alex Brahim