"Pajarillo" is a video collage set to the Venezuelan folk song "Pajarillo Verde." It features Yara Travieso wrestling with a black fabric that engulfs her and a dying bird lodged in her chest. The formless, chaotic movements of her body under the veil contrast with rigid, violent forms—statues of Christopher Columbus, handguns, and physical borders—that are collaged over her. A rapidly shifting Caribbean landscape overlays the video, adding texture and an elusive, unattainable quality. The project explores Travieso's grief over her disconnection from her motherland and her body’s internalization of colonial violence in a futile attempt to control her pain.
This video is a part of my research for a new body of work under the name: “ANTOLOGIA”.
Digital video and Super 8mm film
Camera: Brighid Greene & Yara Travieso
Editor: Yara Travieso
Dramaturg: Catherine Correa