LOST VALUE

Romulo Gallegos, the first democratically elected president of Venezuela, is also one of Latin America’s most influential literary voices of the 20th century. His writing captures the essence of Venezuelan landscapes and customs and the complexities of social and political oppression, topics that remain deeply resonant today.

In this pieces, I worked with “Novelas Escogidas”, carefully extracting segments of the text. Using an assembly technique, I tore and outlined the pages, arranging them against a grey background and pairing them with architectural references from Caracas’s barrios.

The resulting composition creates a quiet tension the fragmented, barely legible text carries emotional weight, transforming the image into a layered, three-dimensional aerial map.