ENTRE TIERRA Y CASA: MATERIALIZING THE ABSTRACT

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Disappearance has long shaped our history through war, displacement, and migration, and it continues today through deportation and erasure.

Central Americans remain largely invisible in media, present but unseen, reduced to labor and hidden behind the kitchens of our favorite restaurants.

This project is a creative interpretation of that reality. It materializes the abstract forces that have shaped Central American history, including American imperialism, displacement, and survival, using fashion, sculpture, and editorial imagery to give those systems physical presence through weight, stillness, and form.

Led by a first-generation Central American Creative Director: Susana Rivera and Photographer: Carolina Isabel, the work approaches history as something carried in thebody rather than confined to archives.

We will be shooting in Guatemala this March.

Your support directly funds the creation of this work on the land it speaks from, collaborating with local creatives and producing images rooted in dignity, complexity, and care.

For Central Americans, this is not new.

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OUR TEAM

A FIRST GEN, WOMEN-LED PROJECT

SUSANA RIVERA

Susana Rivera is an award winning Creative Strategist with 10+ years in the creative industry, bringing insights to life through cultural campaign work.

CREATIVE DIRECTOR

HERRANA ADDISU

Herrana Addisu is a multidisciplinary filmmaker, strategist, and founder of Chucha Studios, a creative production house bridging visual storytelling with social change.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
PHOTOGRAPHER

CAROLINA SALAZAR

Carolina Isabel Salazar is a Guatemalan-American photographer & director based in LA, specializing in commercial, editorial & fashion photography focused on BIPOC stories.

Why now?

We’re in a moment where Latino and immigrant stories are finally being shared culturally, but Central American stories, specifically, are still missing from these conversations.

As ICE and deportations intensify, how we’re seen and represented matters more than ever. This project is about claiming cultural space in this moment, centering our lived experiences before our stories get flattened into headlines again.

FAQs

  • Here you go: https://www.gofundme.com/f/materializing-the-abstract-entre-tierra-y-casa

  • Yes. If you’re unable to donate, you can still support by sharing the project, hosting or helping organize a fundraiser, connecting us with potential partners or collaborators, or offering skills and resources that align with the work. This project is built through community support in many forms.

  • Funds directly support the making of the project in Guatemala, including fair compensation for local creatives, production costs, materials and garments, travel and logistics, and post-production. Contributions also help bring the work to life through editorial placement, exhibitions, and long-term archiving so the project can live beyond a single moment.