Desearía que estuvieras aquí / Wish you were here
2011 | archival inkjet print, digital offset postcards, plastic bins | photograph: 13 x 19 inches, postcards: 4 x 6 inches and edition of 100 each
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Through a photograph and a series of postcards, Wish you were here connects Red Hook, Brooklyn (my neighborhood) and Puerto Colombia (the town in Colombia where it was originally shown). The present of both places seems shaped by nostalgia for the past and isolation resulting from development. As in many of my projects, I use my everyday surroundings to invent explorations of places I have not visited.
Visitors to the exhibition in Puerto Colombia were invited to take postcards and send them back to me, particularly since the postcards were all printed with my address. I made a return postcard, which I sent to my new correspondents once I was back in Red Hook.
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