NADA House 2024

For NADA House, Houston-based Venezuelan Artist Gerardo Rosales will extend and build on those aspects of his public work associated with issues of immigration informed by mythology.

Rosales will create a new installation to explore his experience as an immigrant in the U.S., informed by the current Venezuelan diaspora, after the country’s economic and political free-fall to stimulate inquisitiveness and empathy for this issue for folks for whom Venezuela’s current state is an abstraction seen mentioned in the Times.

Rosales starts by constructing intricate layers of personal symbolism to generate a dynamic visual space employing a folk-art language, that contains and manifests these political, social and environmental realities. Issues of the magical and medical promises hidden in the nations deep forests - endangered by economics and lack of leadership are visually engaged through his lens as a queer ex-patriot.