SPECIAL PROJECTS
SPECIAL PROJECTS
Curatorship & Installation – Cascina Cuccagna, Milan (June 2025)
As part of my creative direction practice, I also explore curatorial work. In June 2025, I created and produced an installation at Cascina Cuccagna in Milan, featuring a group of emerging Venezuelan artists. The exhibition explored how adversity and uncertainty everyday realities for those who grow up in Venezuela can become powerful forces for creativity.
The installation looked at daily life itself as a creative act, highlighting how, through art, fashion, photography, and visual expression, young Venezuelans transform limitations into possibilities. It was an act of resistance, a way of reclaiming identity, and a testament to the idea that even in the most challenging circumstances, creativity not only endures it saves.
Memi - photoshoot production & curatorship of installation
MEMI is a womenswear concept capsule and visual journey by Yannine Ávila, presented on September 20, 2025, during Milan Fashion Week. The inaugural event was hosted at The C Model, a renowned fashion hub in Milan that serves as a creative studio and atelier where research, fabrics, and creativity converge.
MEMI reflects Yannine’s personal story of love, confusion, and cultural contamination between Mérida, Venezuela, where she was born, and Milan, Italy, where she began anew in 2008. Mérida, capital of the Venezuelan Andes, radiates a magical energy an identity shaped by contrasts: Andean yet Caribbean, mountains reaching 2000 meters high yet rhythms of salsa, embodying sea, mountains, desert, and jungle all at once. This cultural duality is woven into the essence of MEMI, blending nostalgia with sartorial research and contemporary creativity.
I took part in the project with the curation of the event as well as the photoshoot production, helping translate this personal narrative into a cohesive fashion and visual experience.
Postales de viaje Fanzine
This fanzine is dedicated to young Latin American immigrants living in Milan those navigating a new city, a new language, and a new life, all while carrying the weight of where they come from.
It is, at its core, an ode to all Latin American immigrants those who have had to leave their homes because of political unrest, inequality, or dreams that simply couldn’t survive back home. It honors the strength it takes to start over, the pain of distance, and the quiet resilience found in everyday acts of adaptation.
Being far from your family, your culture, your language, the flavors and rhythms that shaped you—it’s not easy. This fanzine reflects that longing, that invisible luggage filled with memories and hope. It’s about the in-between space we inhabit: no longer entirely there, not yet fully here.
To be an immigrant is to live in duality between nostalgia and growth, loss and reinvention. It is learning to smile while your heart quietly aches, and finding beauty in the pieces you’re putting back together.
This project is a love letter to all those who’ve turned absence into art, and uprootedness into identity. To those who live between two worlds and carry them both with pride this is for you.