It is a photobook by Alicia Caldera.
This project captures a journey and offers a perspective on Venezuelan migration in Colombia.
Winner of the call for Latin American photobook by CDF Ediciones in Montevideo, Uruguay.
The title 2219 refers to the distance in kilometers of the border that divides Venezuela and Colombia.
The book is composed of three booklets or volumes: one yellow, one blue, and one red. Each volume uses a different formal resource to convey to the reader a changing, active, and complex experience. The first, shaped like a 5-meter fold-out accordion, represents the journey of the migrants, a symbolic and landscape journey between Venezuela and Colombia; the second book explores the new spaces inhabited in Bogotá, offers hidden spaces in memory, and opens up to a new hybrid identity; and the third volume, literally cut in half, ends with fragmented identities, decomposed and broken faces that offer readers the possibility to reconfigure or reconstruct the images.
2219 is a response to the exodus that seems unending and has led to the dispersion of Venezuelans across a variety of countries. It then proposes an experience, a physical and emotional journey between these two countries, Venezuela and Colombia.
