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Francisco Rivas at Wet Paint Studios, New York

The Venezuelan identity is inherently hybrid, shaped by perpetual migration, yet it never relinquishes its creative impulse. The Venezuelan finds refuge in the world, navigating displacement while delineating a distinctly criollo identity through art. Rather than dissolving in transit, this identity materializes in recurring lines, insistent gestures, and a visual language that oscillates between spontaneity and deliberation. Rivas' work embodies this dynamic, where color resists erasure, and form expands beyond imposed limits. This exhibition is an invitation to enter the artist's mind, to witness his creative process at its most essential stage.

Wet Paint Studios serves as a site for experimentation—an ephemeral laboratory of gestures in which each drawing becomes evidence of an identity that is not anchored to geography but rather to the act of making itself. Here, Venezuelanness is not confined to territorial boundaries but manifests as an enduring creative force, asserting itself through artistic practice.

This exhibition, in its itinerancy, mirrors the eternal journey of the Venezuelan—one of movement, reinvention, and resilience. From New York to Casablanca, and finally to Caracas, it follows a path that, like the artist and his people, may ultimately return

Cureted by Maria Virginia Rojas Di Gregorio