Calle del Arte

The film documents one of Venezuela’s biggest festivals of contemporary art, which the Hamburg based artist Clemencia Labín launched twelve years
ago in her native town Maracaibo. With lots of charm, bite and endurance she managed to convince all the neighbours around the Santa Lucia church to
open up their houses to hundreds of artists and tens of thousands of visitors.
And since then this arts festival bursts all social boundaries and transforms over forty households into showrooms and into art themselves. A successful
experiment which Clemencia Labín presented 2011 in the Venezuelan Pavilion at the Biennale in Venice.
While documenting this extraordinary festival early this year, to our great surprise and as a shock for the residents of the neighbourhood, Clemencia
Labín announced the end of the Velada Santa Lucía. And suddenly not only a film about a culture clash at all levels, about the power of visions and of art
in its purest form emerged, but also a snapshot of a community recognizing that the spotlights on the neighbourhood may be switched off again.