Tributo a un Perro Libre is a two-channel, two-voice audiovisual installation that immerses viewers in the visceral experience of love, learned and lived at the limit of life and death.
Viewers become witnesses to two generational narratives that audiovisually converge and diverge, shaped by culture, inheritance, and biological predisposition. Across four chapters (childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and future), the work follows two lives marked by intense emotion, difficulty with emotional regulation, and a deep fear of abandonment. At its core, it explores inheritance as a once-burden that can be recognized, held, and transmuted in pursuit of liberation.
Through computer graphics, dance performance, multichannel audio, and textile installation, the space narrates these stories in distortion, contraction and release, fall and recovery.
A love letter to those navigating attachment-related mental health struggles, the project seeks to illuminate, through beauty, the ongoing nature of healing. Drawing on speculative approaches to Latinx futurism, it uses world-building to acknowledge the collective impact of intergenerational mental health struggles and to imagine futures beyond cycles of pain, rooted in resilience, hope, and healthy relationships to love.
Presented as part of the PRIM x MAI partnership
ABOUT+
Laura Caraballo is an interdisciplinary artist born in Bogotá and based in Tiohtià:ke [Montréal]. Her work explores the use of technology to reimagine and create interactive, sensorial physical and virtual spaces that represent and engage communities in meaningful conversations. She is particularly interested in examining how we shape, and are shaped by, the spaces we inhabit within a temporal context while exploring themes of home, memory and consciousness.
Deeply influenced by her upbringing in Bogotá, Laura infuses satire and grunge into her work. Her time in Montréal has further shaped her career, encouraging a bold embrace of experimental aesthetics and unconventional narratives.
Caraballour works with a variety of new media art forms, including 3D sculpting, virtual reality, and mixed-media installations, with experimentation as the cornerstone of her practice. She views new media art as a powerful tool for cultural retrieval, resilience, and preservation, particularly for those in the diaspora, creating accessible spaces for connection and knowledge-sharing.
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Sound designer: Sinjin Hawke