Luis Vasquez La Roche 

Project: Dancing in the streets is an archive dedicated to joy, resistance and resilience. These images can be of anything or anyone, any moment or situation at home or outside. The images had to be taken between March 19  and November 1st, 2020.  Something that underlines my necessity of archiving and bringing together these images is the common practice of usually showing images of violence and pain of BIPOC folks. This archive is about us and for us. There is more to us than what the media decides to show us.

Bio

(b.1983) Exhibited work in Trinidad, Bahamas, Venezuela, Colombia, Scotland, Germany, and the USA. They were selected to be part of the residency program OAZO AIR in The Netherlands in 2013 and Beta Local’s 2016 Itinerant Seminar in Puerto Rico. In 2013, co-founded See You on Sunday, an artist collective committed to arts education. They taught at The University of Trinidad and Tobago and Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.

Fulbright Scholar 2018-2020

MFA Painting and Printmaking, Virginia Commonwealth University 

BA Special Visual Arts, University of the West Indies