Echoes of Elsewhere is a photographic exploration of Latinx identity, belonging, and cultural memory within contemporary Australia. Drawing on her perspective as a first-generation Chilean-Australian, Daniela Rodriguez uses portraiture and still life to examine how migrant communities preserve and perform cultural identity across distance and time.

The work focuses on themes of matriarchy, homemaking, and intergenerational cultural transmission. Women—mothers, daughters, grandmothers—are photographed in everyday domestic environments, emphasising their roles as cultural custodians. Still life images of food, textiles, botanicals, and symbolic objects deepen this narrative, offering visual metaphors for home, heritage, and resistance.

By weaving together past and present, Echoes of Elsewhere foregrounds the importance of visibility for migrant communities and asserts the complexity of transcultural identity. This exhibition invites viewers to engage with the layered experiences of diaspora and to consider how photography can be used as both testimony and resistance in the ongoing negotiation of belonging.

Biography

Daniela Rodriguez uses photography to navigate Latinx diasporic memory, deconstructing dominant narratives and creating layered spaces of cultural resistance, presence, and belonging. Based in Melbourne and completing a Master of Photography at RMIT.

Instagram: @danielarodriguez_photos