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lucerito, 2025
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]