Ser para otros/Being for others
This participatory project invites spectators to reconsider the value of empathy in times of immigration crisis and multiracial acculturation in today’s societal discussions and political campaigns. Grounded in intimate personal contexts, “Being for others” reflects identity and transit across bureaucratic space. This site-specific installation presents over 242 personal portraits accompanied by an audio poem translated into 21 languages and recited by 67 collaborators of different nationalities. The project's spectral and confounding quality reframes memory from an embodied experience operating at an individual level to the diffusion of reminiscences across the collective.