In Intercambio: A Cultural Exchange, a Super 8 film capturing my family's travels across the United in the 1970s is juxtaposed with stock Super 8 footage of an American family traveling across Colombia around the same time. The piece's editing literalizes the notion of “cultural exchange” being an encounter between equivalences—“Colombia es Colombia?”—even as it prefigures some of my future trajectory as a Colombian American.
Bottom intallation view, Intercambio: A Cultural Exchange, 2020
Single-channel video, MOS