In Lo Que Me Habita, multidisciplinary artist Lisu Vega transforms memory, language, and textile into an immersive architecture of belonging. Drawing from her Wayuu heritage and a broad Caribbean lineage, Vega weaves ancestral knowledge and personal memory into sensorial installations that blur the boundaries between body, home, and landscape.
Through suspended textiles, metal weavings, photographic fragments, and poems translated across English, Spanish, Portuguese, Braille, and American Sign Language, the exhibition unfolds as a polyphonic space where memory becomes tactile and language becomes voice. Archival photographs of her grandmother’s house—sewing machines, bathtubs, trees—appear as both relics and portals, evoking the home as a ghost-body: fragile, intimate, and porous with time.
Vega’s process is guided by an ethic of care and sustainability. Repurposed textiles, oxidized fibers, and the byproducts of her sublimation process are not discarded but elevated, honoring residues as essential carriers of memory. Each gesture of weaving, printing, and layering functions as both a ritual of repair and a feminist affirmation of labor as knowledge.
Ultimately, Lo Que Me Habita is not only an exhibition but a poetic encounter. Visitors are invited to step inside its woven architectures, to read and listen across languages, and to experience the fragment as a living archive. Vega’s work suggests that what inhabits us—our memories, our ancestries, our silences—can be transformed into vessels of tenderness, continuity, and renewal.
Artist: Lisu Vega