Génesis Alayón (Villa de Cura, Edo. Aragua 1995) is a student of the last semester of Visual Arts at the University of Los Andes. As an artist her research and concerns revolve around social plots through portraiture, among which themes such as displacement, absence and belonging stand out, whose plastic results have been shown in exhibitions such as Los del Espacio, Espacio Proyecto Libertad (Merida, 2020). 22nd National Youth with Fia – Nomads Hall, UCAB (Caracas, 2019). Salón Por Los Caminos Verdes de Humboldt – Goethe Institute, Hacienda La Trinidad (Caracas, 2019), Collective Exhibition 234+2 Lights, Espacio Proyecto Libertad (Merida, 2019). Los del Espacio, Espacio Proyecto Libertad (Merida, 2018). 14th National Hall of Young Artists Maczul (Maracaibo, 2018). II National Salon of Small Format Painting (Merida, 2016). Among others.
“Those, who once employed, today survive in the streets of the country in the midst of precariousness, the absence of public services, transport, fuel. Emergency survival of the mobilization, “las perreras”. Unsafe, fragile transportation system, in which every day thousands of Venezuelans move through strange and complex routes with the intention of reaching their destinations. Any truck will do, as long as they can get on a platform that transports them, without thinking about the risks that this causes, the emotional stress to which they are subjected. This situation is taken as a symbolic and representational matter by the young artist Genesis Alayon (Villa de Cura, 1995), who patiently travels around the city capturing these transports and the people who live in them, but in ‘Patrones de recorrido’ (2019), there is only the absence, the tension of fragility and the superimposed routes of difficulty”.
Extract from “LA AUSENCIA: ENTRE SILLAS Y PERRERAS LA REALIDAD DE UN PAÍS”, Elizabeth Marín. 2020