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All About Photo is proud to present Olivia Vivanco as the featured artist of our upcoming solo exhibition with her project Passing Through, showcased exclusively on All About Photo.
In this series, the Mexican visual artist reflects on how to represent the migrant experience without exposing, stigmatizing, or simplifying those who live it. Through journeys across migratory routes, shelters, and transitional spaces in Mexico, Vivanco focuses on traces, objects, and environments that quietly bear witness to displacement. Abandoned belongings and temporary spaces become “deferred portraits,” evoking presence and memory without revealing identities.
Rather than documenting migration as a crisis, the work proposes an ethical visual approach that preserves dignity and avoids stereotypical or criminalizing representations. The photographed environments—roads, shelters, railway tracks, and makeshift spaces—speak of waiting, uncertainty, resilience, and constant movement.
Passing Through ultimately shifts attention from the face to the trace, offering a sensitive and human reflection on migration shaped by survival, solidarity, and hope.
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Mexican visual artist. Her interest lies in human movements, in migration from within the migrant experience itself and its remaining traces. In the process, she uses anthropological tools as a way to understand migration as a social phenomenon. As an artistic language, photography has always been her starting point, incorporating other audiovisual languages into it.
She has exhibited her work at Museo Carrillo Gil, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Centro de la Imagen, Centro Cultural de España, and Alianza Francesa de México among others. Also in Colombia, Chile, Denmark, France, Germany, Morocco, Puerto Rico, France, Germany, Spain and the United States.
Beneficiary of the FONCA Artistic Residence grant in 2019. Selected in 2017 at the exhibition "The Great Machine IV" in Embarrat, Festival of Contemporary Creation in Spain, at the exhibition "Caledoscopio steady-cam", presented at the 1st International Week of Video Creation in Lanzarote, Spain and at the "3rd Contemporary Photography Competition in Mexico". In 2016 she was selected for the "XII Femsa Biennial" and the "2nd National Biennial of Landscape". In 2013 he was awarded First Place in the "19th Latin American Documentary Photography Contest" in Colombia and Third Place in the "XXXII ENAH Anthropological Photography Contest". In 2010, the FONCA promotion of projects and cultural co-investment grant for the publication of the book "Guadalupe".Other knowledgements include: Selection of the short film "Isalia" at the following festivals: "Pantalla de Cristal" and "Mujeres en el Cine y la Televisión" (2009) and First Place in the "Photographic Report Contest Stories of Mexican Women" organized by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Mexico.
Her work is part of the collection of artist's books of the Alumnos Foundation, of the documentary videos heritage of Curtadoc, in Brazil, and of the Benetton Collection.
https://www.all-about-photo.com/online-gallery/solo-exhibition/213/passing-through-by-olivia-vivanco
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