Latino Midwest Video Collective presents Glimpses of a Journey, a video traveling exhibition featuring the critically acclaimed work of interdisciplinary media artist and Fulbright Scholar Raul Ferrera-Balanquet, one of the most dynamic Cuban-born interdisciplinary media artist alive today.

Glimpses of a Journey explores the creative trajectory of the artist through some of his videos. It departs from reconstruction of the Cuban landscape, investigating the historical period between 1960-1980 before the artist migration to the United States. As the exhibition maps and reconstructs a multi- directional journey, the socio-cultural and political concerns of the artist, Glimpse of a Journey unfold to present the complexity of the Latin American and Latino realities.

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Ferrera-Balanquet´s aesthetics conducts the exhibition toward the representation of issues such as immigration, mestizaje, cultural identity, and sexual desire.The violent clashes of the personal experiences against the sociological landscape of Cuba, the United States and Mexico bring the audiovisual discourse to a historical level, tracing a composite portrait of the diverse communities where the artist finds the roots of his hybrid diasporic self.

The exhibition emphasizes the narrative and stylistic devices employed by the artist to articulate a personal audiovisual discourse, marking the importantce of understanding our placement within history.

Glimpses of a Journey reaffirms that a postcolonial process of liberation not only takes places at the economic, political and social levels, but deeper in the subconscious where the reconstruction of the experiences allow us to free ourselves from the oppressions stored in our bodies.