New York’s Latine community questions the tension of cultural identity and assimilation with poetry

Weaving poetry through New York's Latine community, a visual essay asks what people give up in order to fit in far from where they were born.

A poetic, intimate meditation on belonging and the quiet costs of assimilation.

Weaving poetry into her short film The Ocean is Closed on Mondays, Swiss-Chilean visual artist Laura Gauch questions what we lose in order to fit in through the Latine community in New York City. Between the challenges o

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