Behind that blue and red (Detrás de ese azul y rojo)

I propose to tell a story of the historic center of La Guaira,the coast closest to the city of Caracas (Vzla) and one of the oldest and most important ports in the country.Thinking and reflecting about memory, the present and the political uses of history

La Guaira is the coast closest to the city of Caracas (Venezuela), and one of the oldest and most important ports in the country, especially during the eighteenth century, as the center of trade operations, imports and exports of goods and fruits, such as cocoa, during those colonial years.

However, years have passed and this territory seems to be the backyard of Caracas. A kind of paradise or tourist oasis that sometimes seems to have no history, a place of fragmented stories, and at the same time, a kind of dormitory city because of its airport; a place of many names, which seem to be changed, like someone who reinvents an identity, and makes a kind of clean slate.

All this is even more palpable in the streets of the historic center of La Guaira, and its current architectural recovery and restoration. Whose works make us reflect and question about memory, the present, identity, the political uses of historical sites and of history itself, the interference of the State and politicking -which can produce rejection in some people, cover up discontent and fall into excesses-; the great lack of drinking water, the pain and traces of tragedies and river floods (the most serious and recent occurred in 1999), and on the other hand, the bluest skies, salsa music and the smiles of the thriving people who live in the lands of this old town, where all the streets reach the sea.

In this project I propose to tell a story of the historic center of La Guaira in its current state, through visual experimentation, starting from walks through its streets, looking for the generation of matrices and graphic material, through documents, papers, graffiti, and found objects, in its various buildings in ruins, a typography that works since the nineteenth century and conversations with its own inhabitants, which allowed me to somehow read this old town that I knew during my childhood