Rosamaría Bolom
She is convinced that art is the best tool to positively influence our society.As psychologist and multidisciplinary artist she is working mostly with masks and sculptures to explore the limits of the imaginary, the symbolic and the real.
"My art works reflects on the concept of human dignity in the context of globalization".
Migrant Walk
-Necessity obliges us to leave-
Paper sculptures
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Human figures with different dimensions
between 26x17x8cm and 58x40x13
Mexican Cardboard Technique
Acrylic painted
2021
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This work recreates the journey of migrants who cling to the ideal of a better life.
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This sculptural piece was part of "NeoNorte 3.0" an exhibition curated and conceptualized by Tere Chad.
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October 2018 a flyer with a man carrying his backpack and open arms began to circulate on social networks in Honduras. It was the first massive call to join a migrant caravan. “We are not leaving because we want to. Violence and poverty expel us”.
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The migrant caravan convened through social networks in a massive way is a relatively new phenomenon that arises specifically in Honduras. This movent invites other migrants, in their wake, to join this procession to become together a mass that breaks any siege and guarantees their right to emigrate in a "safety" way from criminal groups and system repression on their way to "a new life".
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The migrant walk today becomes tangible evidence of a great humanitarian crisis caused by corruption, insecurity and impunity of many governments (especially in Central America) that end up granting concessions to transnational corporations, agreements that reinforce the privileges of the spheres of power and the free operation of organized crime.
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Necessity obliges us to leave
Here we were born and from here we will go
necessity obliges us to leave
Violence. Poverty. Injustice
the non-existent future obliges us to leave
to the south?
to the north?
we are in the middle
we inhabit the hips
of this raped and devastated continent
rulers, entrepreneurs, interventionism
they have extracted
the maturity from our land
the vitality from our bodies
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fracking, mining, murder
necropolitics stalking the Abya Yala
we are tired of knowing
that justice is politicized and
gives protection to the friends of power
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we are tired of waiting for tomorrow
it seems to never come for us
necessity obliges us to leave
to arrive or to die
in any case escape
migrate together
to be a mass of humanity
a migrant walk
that finally
gets us to a better life
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Rosamaría Bolom, 2021