Artist Reception - Oldren Romero
Things They Carried Away: A Visual Memoir of Leaving and Loss, Endurance and Self-Discovery
Oldren Romero’s Things They Carried Away: A Visual Memoir of Leaving and Loss, Endurance and Self-Discovery is an exhibition about leaving home, loss, survival, and the search for a better life. The exhibition focuses on Cuban emigration, especially during the 1990s, when thousands of Cubans took to the sea in small, often unsafe boats in the hope of reaching the United States.
Romero’s exhibition focuses on a simple question: When people have to leave home, what can they take, and what do take with them? Some people are able to pack their belongings and choose what they want to bring. Others have to leave with almost nothing. But everyone carries something, their hopes, dreams, memories, fears, and the strength it takes to begin again in a foreign place.
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