This Triangle International Artists’ Workshop took place at la Hacienda Tácata, Arriba near Caracas, in June 2000. Twenty international artists participated, half of whom were Venezuelan and the others from countries of the region and beyond. La Llama was started by Luis Romero, who was at Shave International Artists Workshop in 1995.
La santa de la llama was one of several pieces I made while I was there. The saint figurine has an item suggested by each person on the workshop, e.g plastic bag, a globe, a loaf of bread… La santa is unfired clay and lives with Luis Romero in Caracas.
Recuerdos da tacata came about after a visit to the village with Luis. We got talking to the pharmacist there, Julian, who showed me his photo archive (remember when you got your films developed at the chemist?) . He had kept all the photos belonging to the villagers and it was like a huge unsorted family album. With Luis’s help I got hold of a space (it was a town hall or police station) to exhibit these pictures and put up a provisional exhibition with private view took place one evening. Whilst the show was on, people came and moved pictures around, adding new ones etc...
Date
2000