I started following the Instagram account Imagenes de Nicaragua in 2020 and through that account discovered the talented artist, Gabrielle Garcia-Steib. Gabrielle works in archives and moving image. Frequenting Nicaragua, and Mexico, her work explores the construction of narratives through outdated processes that connect Latin America with the Deep South. She is interested in ways in which collective memory and images are used to communicate in political, environmental and spiritual landscapes. She looks to build to interrogate our relationships with the places we come from and inhabit. Currently she is developing a project called Imagenes de Nicaragua which seeks to make photographs, documents and video from Nicaragua more accessible and public. I discovered Gabrielle through her work in the Instagram account, Imagenes de Nicaragua, in this episode we talk about her archival work, art and sustainability and her roots in Latin America and New Orleans.
