Edgar Melo and Daniel Garcia: Back to Barataria

Institute of Hispanic Culture of Houston (IHCH) and the Consulate General of Spain in Houston present the art project exhibition Back to Barataria, by Spanish Documentary Filmmakers Daniel Garcia and Edgar Melo. Opening Reception September 15 at 7pm. On view through September 28.

Photos and text presented in the exhibition are the result of a project executed by filmakers and documentalists Edgar Melo and Daniel Garcia. They researched four areas in the Unted States looking for names of streets or cities with names that appear in the book of Miguel de Cervantes.

Back to Barataria presents the following hypothesis:  What if  Sancho Panza traveled to the US in 2016?

Back to Barataria is a photographic prjoect around Don Quixote and the Hispanic community through places found in the south of the US, with names from the famous book of Miguel de Cervantes.

The project establishes an ironic play between reality and fiction and it is a photographic journey to Florida, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizone and the region of Barataria in Louisiana – the name of the imaginary island whose government was promised to Sancho Panza.