El Salvador 2026

Title: Cartographies of the Displaced
Commissioner: Astrid María Bahamond
Curator: Alejandra Cabezas
Exhibitor: José Oscar Molina

The exhibition explores themes of migration, memory, and identity through a multidisciplinary practice encompassing sculpture, painting, and installation.

At the centre of the pavilion is the sculptural series “Children of the World”, which serves as a tribute to displaced and diasporic communities. The work examines displacement not only as a geographical act but as an ontological condition, investigating how identity is constructed through movement, rupture, and renewal. By focusing on the personal and collective histories of uprooting, the exhibition asks what remains and what new meanings are constructed when individuals are displaced from their origins.

The works function as a map of belonging, navigating the fragile yet resilient nature of carrying one’s past and myths into new terrains.