I am pleased to share with you some of the promotional material that I designed for “Cartographies of the Displaced,” a show of J. Oscar Molina’s work at the 61st International Art Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia. The show opened at the Palazzo Mora as part of the Exhibition’s El Salvador Pavilion. Molina’s show is the first to represent El Salvador at the International Art Exhibition.
J. Oscar Molina (El Salvador, 1971) is a painter and sculptor whose work explores resilience, memory, and transformation. He grew up along the Gulf of Fonseca during El Salvador’s civil war, an environment marked by conflict and displacement that would later inform his artistic vision.
In 1989, at sixteen, Molina and his family migrated to the United States, seeking refuge from the violence of his homeland.
Molina’s ongoing project, Children of the World, reflects his enduring interest in migration and human endurance. Cast in concrete, copper, and bronze, these sculptures—ranging from intimate to monumental scale—stand as quiet witnesses to displacement and belonging. Through these figures, Molina offers a meditation on fragility and endurance, grounding personal history in a broader reflection on the shared human search for home.
I am grateful to J. Oscar Molina and Project Director Matko Tomičić for this opportunity.
You can see more pictures of the promotional material here.
