lucerito, 2025
As a big part of my work deals with images and text, it felt natural to explore with video. In this ocassion, to confront personal situations and winter blues, my practice centered on writing. Such exercises ended up being the script of this video, that was built from my personal archive of the last five years, edited with new material. For the solo show, the video became an installation where there was an ongoing music performance, that dealt with the themes of the video.
“Water connects us – across national borders, linking our collective
past to the present. It can bring what was lost back to the surface, and hide what
was once visible deep in the dark. It can make us forget – and expose the
truth. Its surface hypnotizes us, pulling us back into our most beautiful and
most painful moments, as if it carried them within itself. Like bittersweet
siren songs, these memories and emotions draw us in. How much space can we give
nostalgia before it begins to paralyze us? In her video installation, artist
Laura Gómez explores the ambivalences of migrant experiences – suspended
between longing for the life left behind and the beauty and excitement of new
beginnings. Through video stills of Hamburg’s harbor, Gómez creates a
projection surface for the personal emotion of the visitors. The water and the
industrial landscape can overwhelm us, calm us down, or leave us deeply moved –
and sometimes all at once. In Gómez’s monochrome, grey video footage, she
allows us to physically sense the challenge that a endless winter represents
for the artist, who was born in the warmth and light of Colombia.” [curatorial text by Jenni Schurr]