"A Caribbean Question" Exhibition Goes on Display in Caracas

This painting belongs to a sub-collection in the exhibition which depicts the Caribbean identities of human subjects (Rachael Boothroyd Rojas/Venezuelanalysis.com)

Exhibition-goers have labeled this painting "The Witch" (Rachael Boothroyd Rojas/Venezuelanalysis.com)

"The Santero" - a celebration of Caribbean Santerismo, a form of syncretism between Yoruba deities and Catholicism that was used as a means of cultural and epistemological resistance and survival by enslaved Afrodescendents in the Caribbean (Rachael Boothroyd Rojas/Venezuelanalysis.com).

"Mother Heart" (Rachael Boothroyd Rojas/Venezuelanalysis.com)

This guitar belongs to a section of the exhibition that uses a variety of small cultural artifacts to showcase the paintings, giving them a 3D dimension (Rachael Boothroyd Rojas/Venezuelanalysis.com)

The "salsa musician" or salsero (Rachael Boothroyd Rojas/Venezuelanalysis.com)

(Rachael Boothroyd Rojas/Venezuelanalysis.com)

A Yoruba deity in the "Sons of Kings" section, which pays homage to Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier (Rachael Boothroyd Rojas/Venezuelanalysis.com)

A dancing devil from Venezuela's Yare, one of the most important cultural and religious festivals for the country's Afrodescendent population (Rachael Boothroyd Rojas/Venezuelanalysis.com)

Changó, a warrior Yoruba deity (Rachael Boothroyd Rojas/Venezuelanalysis.com).

The "Campesino" (Rachael Boothroyd Rojas/Venezuelanalysis.com).

A Caribbean poetry reading was also organised as part of the exhibition, entitled (Rachael Boothroyd Rojas/Venezuelanalysis.com)

Poet Alejandro Indriago reads a poem by Cuban poet Nicolas Guillen (Rachael Boothroyd Rojas/Venezuelanalysis.com)

Kattia Piñango reads a poem by Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos (Rachael Boothroyd Rojas/Venezuelanalysis.com)

The artist, Kalaka (Rachael Boothroyd Rojas/Venezuelanalysis.com) .