Carolina Caycedo

My practice brings awareness on social and environmental justice, issues that mostly impact indigenous and people of color communities across the Americas, including immigrant mothers like myself. During quarantine I’ve been keeping well by feeling hopeful about this profound change of gears. The social, economic and environmental transformation that many of us have been imagining and working towards, seem urgently necessary... and suddenly possible!

I want to share images of OFFERINGS, a project I did in 2011 in Loisaida (newyorikan for Lower East Side), where I collaborated with members of local religious, spiritual, and social activist groups as part of “Living as Form” by @creativetime. The project took shape in hundreds of customized votive candles, with messages about Illumination, Pilgrimage, Labor Rights and Immigration. In the midst of this emergency I find their renewed resonance. The candles were distributed to the public during two inclusive public shrines and candlelight ceremonies at Lower East Side Prep. School and the iconic St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery. Today we offer these images for the wellbeing of our friends, family and folks in New York, who’ve been hit hardest by this pandemic.
From coast to coast, light a candle in solidarity with those struggling the most!

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Artist Bio

Born in London to Colombian parents, Carolina Caycedo has lived and worked in Los Angeles since 2012. She has developed publicly engaged projects in major cities across the globe, from Bogotá to London, New York to Paris, and San Juan to Tijuana. Her work has been exhibited at several international biennials and has been the subject of solo shows in galleries from Los Angeles to Berlin. Her artist book Serpent River Book was part of the A Universal History of Infamy exhibition at LACMA, and she recently participated in the Hammer Museum’s Made in LA 2018 exhibition.