De-Documenting · Beatriz Bellorín
Opening Reception Friday, March 6, 6–9 PM
On view Saturdays, 1–5 PM
March 6–April 11
De-Documenting is a multimedia installation that confronts the bureaucratic rabbit hole and emotional disorientation embedded in U.S. immigration systems. Centered on the ongoing legal battle to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for approximately 600,000 Venezuelans, the work examines how legal and media language—intended to inform and protect—can obscure human cost and lived experience.
Bellorín, a Venezuelan-American artist, approaches the project from a personal and political position, resisting the dehumanizing logic of immigration enforcement and the erasure of migrant narratives. Drawing from key court filings in the 2025 case National TPS Alliance v. Noem, hundreds of pages of legal text are digitally manipulated into abstract compositions. Language dissolves into visual and sonic noise, reflecting the instability and fragmentation produced by prolonged legal uncertainty.
Through accumulation, repetition, and abstraction, De-Documenting exposes how official language and information overload function as tools of exclusion, making present the lives of those affected by these policies, whose existence is reduced to files, dates, and legal footnotes.
Beatriz Bellorín is a Venezuelan-American photo-video artist and documentary filmmaker whose
work explores identity, memory, displacement, and diaspora. Combining anthropological research with autobiography, she works with archival documents and personal memorabilia to examine the emotional weight of memory and nostalgia. Her recent projects expand into installation, engaging themes of migration, the enduring bond between mother and daughter, and the weight of familial memory.
Bellorín holds an MA in Visual Anthropology from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a BA in Sociology from Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Caracas. Her work has been recently shown at FotoFest Houston with Throughline Collective; the Amarillo Museum of Art for the AMoA 600 Biennial (2025); the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft through CraftTexas 2025; and the Laboratorio Festival (Buenos Aires) within Ecosistema de Afectos, as well as the 2024 Texas Biennial. In 2024, she was an artist in residence at Ramona Residency. As a documentary filmmaker she produces films that feature contemporary artists and their creative processes.
Website: beatrizbellorin.com
IG: @beatrizbellorinart