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H.T. AWARENESS

Art Exhibition - En tránsito

(Seasonals -forever-)

70,000+ Temporary Migrant Workers produce food for the Canadian population.

The anonymous journey of the Seasonal Agricultural Workers is marked by family separation, loneliness, letdown, and broken dreams. Seasonal workers’ lives are the inspiration for this Solo Exhibition by Diana Olarte, a Colombian-Mexican artist who has created 16 artwork pieces that capture their stories.

I create at the edge of the ledge, from that place where belonging becomes uncertain and the body learns to inhabit instability.

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I am a migrant woman, and in that transit I have learned to see with a different sensitivity: to recognize the traces of those who arrive holding a dream in their hands and end up carrying something much heavier. I have seen how promises dissolve, how language becomes a barrier, how the lack of knowledge of one’s rights opens cracks where vulnerability settles.

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These images emerge fromwhat I listen to, fromwhat I observe, fromwhat I cannot ignore.

Bodies that float, that fragment, that barely hold themselves together.

Landscapes that do not have a clear origin, that seem suspended in an uncertain time.

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Traces that speak, but also remain silent.

I develop this proposal through the fluidity of water, because water does not remain fixed: it expands, escapes, leaves marks. Like the migrant experience, which cannot be contained in a single form. Each stain is an attempt to remain, each diffuse edge is a story that has not yet finished

being told.

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I am drawn to fragility, but also to the possibility of transformation.

It unsettles me to normalize other people’s realities.

It disturbs me how easily certain lives become invisible.

I paint bodies that resist.

I paint memories that insist.

I paint what should never have disappeared.

Being in transit is not a destination.

It is a collective journey, a way to speak more honestly and visibly about a

reality lived by many people moving through uncertainty.

Uncertainty, unfortunately, for many migrants, is also a dignified way to

keep moving forward.

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