That someone is likely Lara Alcantara, who, along with some
120 volunteers, placed 55 of these guerrilla installations throughout the five
boroughs — two have even made it to New Jersey. The works aim to raise
awareness of the violent protests and government brutality ravaging her native
Venezuela under its authoritarian president, Nicolás Maduro. “As an expat
dealing with not being in Venezuela while seeing everything that’s going on,
it’s difficult,” says Alcantara, 38. “I’m not a politician, but I thought,
‘How, as an artist, can I raise awareness?’ ” The idea came to her while she
was working on another installation, one depicting scenes from her childhood in
Caracas and featuring a chessboard. That classic game of power moves “was the
perfect metaphor” for the doings in Venezuela, says the Murray Hill resident,
who moved to New York in 1999. More…
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