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ElEONORA GOMEZ BAS
a remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances without apparent causal connection.
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“home and back (entrehogares)” combines a poem in Spanish and English throughout the book, with accompanying photographs taken during my life in Caracas (Venezuela), and New York City.
Having left my home country to move to Venezuela at 10, and later on moving to the United States at 24, attachment, separation, impermanence and adaptation have been major themes in my life since an early age. In my work “home and back (entrehogares)”, I use images and poetry to explore my journey of adaptation over the course of the past twenty years. Images blend into each other, depicting a process where I flow from place to place, sometimes more seamlessly than others. Words reflect my search for a sense of self in connection to my place in the world, my home.
Because of its particular binding structure, “home and back (entrehogares)” allows the viewer to explore the content through many different combinations, perhaps choosing their own personal journey throughout the book. The “concertina” binding allows the viewer to pull the book open in a way that will display all 16 images next to each other to form one single 9 1/2 ft long image, both front-to-back, and back-to-front.
Inkjet printing on Velvet Fine Art Paper / 6” x 9” x 1.5” (closed), 9ft x 6” (open)
Acquired by Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Cynthia Sears Artists’ Books Collection