Latinovision

Opening in Vienna immediately after the Eurovision Song Contest, Latinovision emerges as both a playful and reflective response to ideas of cultural representation, visibility, and belonging.

While Eurovision’s identity is defined by unity, music, performance, and broadcasting, Latinovision proposes another kind of vision: one shaped by memory, migration, heritage, and lived experience.

The exhibition brings together Latin American artists living abroad whose works explore their personal relationships to Latin America from a distance. Rather than presenting a simplified image of a region, Latinovision embraces its diversity, complexity, richness and abstract disquiet through contemporary artistic perspectives shaped by displacement and cultural memory.

Initially conceived as a celebration of Latin America — of its roots, its emotional intensity, and its plurality; fragments of Latin America reappear in this exhibition through color, texture, organic forms, landscapes, and pattern — these elements become carriers of memory: intimate traces of places, traditions, and identities that persist despite geographical distance.

Many of the artists address the experience of migration and the emotional transformation that occurs when living far from one’s homeland. Often, it is through absence that memory becomes sharper. The flavors of familiar meals, the day-to-day colors, the smell of the flora, the warmth of community, and the visual languages embedded in craft and nature begin to acquire new meaning abroad.

In this context, nostalgia is not understood as romanticization, but as an active process of remembering, preserving, and reconstructing identity. Several works explore this idea through encapsulated forms of continuity, carrying what cannot be entirely preserved yet refuses to disappear. Other works turn toward landscape and ecology, reflecting on the profound relationship between territory, memory, extraction, and belonging; natural textures appear both vibrant and vulnerable, revealing the inseparable connection between cultural identity and the land itself. Indigenous visual languages and traditions also resonate throughout the exhibition as living presences that continue to influence contemporary Latin American identity across generations and borders. The works collectively resist reduction, instead revealing Latin America as layered, hybrid, emotional, and constantly evolving. The exhibition becomes a meeting point between memory and migration, between celebration and reflection, between what is left behind and what continues to travel with us.

Ultimately, Latinovision proposes that Latin America exists not only as a geographical territory, but as something carried within the body, the senses, and everyday life. Through these works, the exhibition invites viewers into a shared sensory landscape where heritage survives through remembrance, transformation, and the enduring desire to remain connected to one’s roots.

-Azalea Ortega Flores

ARTISTS:
KARINA FERNANDEZ
PAULA FLORES
SOFIA ANDRETTA JUÁREZ
COSTANZA CAMILA KRAMER GARFIAS
EVELYN LYNAM RUIZ
FRANCISCO RUBIEL
OSORIO FABER
AZALEA ORTEGA FLORES
RAMIRO WONG