Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This exhibition essay by Julia P. Herzberg reviews the artistic trajectory of Venezuelan artist Nela Ochoa (b. 1953), whose current work is inspired by the medical sciences. Since the 1990s, she has mainly focused on the body, genetics, and [...]

In this text, the curator Luis Ángel Duque exposes the reasons why the sixth Bienal de Artes Visuales Christian Dior (1999) is dedicated to hypermedia. In his view, each of the twenty-four participants in the exhibition used imagery and expressed [...]

This text by Edgar Alfonzo-Sierra is a review of the video installation Lejana by Venezuelan artist Nela Ochoa; the work, which is based on a story by Julio Cortázar [in English entitled “The Distances”], was exhibited at the Museo Alejandro [...]

In this article entitled “Nela Ochoa,” critic Víctor Guédez analyzes the video installation of the Venezuelan artist, Lejana [Far Away]. Guédez explores the symbolic and conceptual nature of the work, at the same time connecting Ochoa’s [...]