¡CORRELÉ, CORRELÉ, CORRELÁ, POR AQUÍ, POR AQUÍ, POR ALLÁ, CORRELÉ, CORRELÉ, CORRELÁ, CORRELÉ QUE TE VAN A MATAR!
[Run, run, run, Over here, over here, over there, Run, run, run, Run ‘cause they’re going to kill you]

¡Correlé, correlé, correlá! is a multichannel video installation that examines migration as a continuous condition rather than a single event. The work was presented in X Factor: Latinx Artists and the Reconquest of the Everyday, curated by Christian Viveros-Faune and organized by the USF Contemporary Art Museum.

The installation is composed of three black-and-white video triptychs displayed across multiple screens, presenting the beginning, middle, and end of journeys simultaneously. In several sequences, the final frame is absent, suggesting displacement without resolution. This fractured structure places the figures in a state of perpetual transit, suspended between departure and arrival.

The figures appear naked yet masked, their vulnerability exposed while their identities remain anonymous. Their minimal movement, marked by breath and stillness, heightens the tension between urgency and stasis. A rhythmic soundscape of breathing measures time and endurance, emphasizing survival as a physical and psychological act.

The title references El Aparecido, a protest song by Víctor Jara, written in response to political persecution and later charged by Jara’s execution during Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship. While rooted in a specific historical context, the phrase expands to encompass contemporary routes of displacement across the world.

Within X Factor, ¡Correlé, correlé, correlá! reclaims everyday gestures, waiting, and breath as sites of political meaning. The work resists spectacle, confronting viewers instead with the quiet persistence of those navigating forced movement, uncertainty, and survival.

X Factor: Latinx Artists and the Reconquest of the Everyday underscores a moment of political and creative ferment in which fundamental redefinitions of identity and society are not only possible, but necessary. The exhibition is organized by the USF Contemporary Art Museum and supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Exhibiting artists: Gabino A. Castelán, Gisela Colón, Danielle De Jesus, Lucia Hierro, Karlo Andrei Ibarra, Laura Perez Insua, José Lerma, Eddy A. López, Miguel Luciano, Narsiso Martinez, Angel Otero, Edison Peñafiel, Shizu Saldamando, Yiyo Tirado-Rivera, and Rodrigo Valenzuela.