Agencia Ocote explores, through photography in dialogue with art , journalism and other narrative mechanisms, the exile experienced by human rights defenders, journalists, lawyers, judges, prosecutors, and activists who, in recent years, have been forced to leave Guatemala due to criminalization and persecution by the State and the Justice apparatus itself.

Guatemalan-Mexican visual artist Óscar Farfán portrayed some of the people in exile and reflects on his own history as a child of exile from the Internal Armed Conflict in the 1980s.

This exhibition proposes a ritual of presence and evocation. Of listening, observing, and reflecting. This work deals with exiles and the insistence that the media can be artifacts to narrate the present, but also to invoke memory. It is part of the journalistic special “In Exile.”