Walking into the exhibit I felt as though I was walking into a screening of home videos. The videos shown felt very nostalgic; it reminded me a lot of my home in Venezuela. The videos felt really natural in the way they were filmed and in the subjects they portray because the subjects were real people and not actors. The video of the kids was really familiar to me because in Venezuela I remember going to see my cousins in the countryside and having funny adventures like that of the kids in the video. there was also a video of a hatian man talking about his eye opening experiences with voodoo and some dreams that he's had that made him believe in god and believe in some greater power and i found his story really intriguing.
The way the exhibition was set up gave the videos themselves the most importance. The mirror sculptures were placed in a dim light that made them feel unimportant but those same dim lights made interesting reflections on the walls. I really wish the lighting for the sculptures was better but perhaps the lighting was intentional and the sculptures are really not that important. The video that accompanied the sculptures was the most interesting because it was shot using interesting techniques. The artist used the sculptures to make the videos, and I feel as though the other videos were made for an audience unfamiliar to South American culture that has a more exoticized view of South America and the Caribbean.
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