Title: We know who we are … We are water
Allentown Art Museum
Mixed Media Community Art Project
In We know who we are … We are water, Daniel Djuro-Goiricelaya weaves together education, personal history, and performance to explore identity, migration, and ancestral memory. Inspired by a 5th-grade arts integration project based on Moana, the piece reflects on the artist’s own journey from Venezuela to the U.S., and the shared experiences of students discovering their cultural roots.
Through wearable art created with his students—drawing influence from artists like Nick Cave and Alexander McQueen—Djuro-Goiricelaya honors traditions of storytelling, resilience, and creativity. The installation becomes both a tribute to those who cross waters in search of home and a reminder that, no matter where we’re from, we are all water—connected, flowing, and enduring.
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Title: Atrapando un Atardecer 2025
Artist: Daniel Djuro-Goiricelaya
Medium: Interdisciplinary Installation and Performance
In Atrapando un atardecer, Daniel Djuro-Goiricelaya invites viewers into a dreamlike encounter where memory, longing, and childlike wonder converge. This immersive installation and live performance piece becomes a poetic “trap” — not one of capture, but of seduction — designed to convince the sun to linger a little longer. With a playful sincerity rooted in the artist’s inner child, Djuro-Goiricelaya constructs a space where light, movement, and color collaborate in ritual.
The performance incorporates ephemeral gestures, and the making of the trap while the installation is bathed in a deliberately chosen palette that mirrors the fleeting spectrum of the evening sky — amber, lavender, coral, and violet — inviting the audience to contemplate the impossible desire to hold on to beauty as it slips away. In this offering to the horizon, the artist makes time elastic, turning dusk into an altar of nostalgia and imagination.
La Sinfonía del Muro de Flores
Artist: Daniel Djuro-Goiricelaya (Lead Artist & Artistic Director)
Medium: Interdisciplinary collaborative art project, light, sound, and performance
Year: 2024
Presented at: Allentown Art Museum
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La Sinfonía del Muro de Flores (The Symphony of the Wall of Flowers) is a collective, interdisciplinary art installation and performance work led by Venezuelan-born American artist Daniel Djuro-Goiricelaya. Conceived as a communal act of creation, the piece brings together visual artists, musicians, dancers, educators, and local community members in a celebration of rebirth, beauty, and transformation.
This is not a traditional mural or static artwork—it is a living environment. Suspended floral forms, Wayuu-inspired textiles, kinetic light projections, and vibrant soundscapes coalesce into a radiant, immersive experience. At its core, La Sinfonía del Muro de Flores is a visual and emotional symphony, interpreted through a live orchestral score by composer Ignacio Valdivia Avendaño, conducted by Nicolás Gómez Amin, and performed by the Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra. The performance also included interpretive movement, video, and narrative storytelling—all created in dialogue with the local community and presented as one unified, multi-sensory experience.
Rooted in Djuro-Goiricelaya’s ongoing series of Chromatic Immersion Journeys, the work reimagines the gallery as a participatory space of reflection and connection. It is a poetic response to the power of collective creation—where artists, students, and neighbors become co-authors of a space blooming with light, memory, and hope. La Sinfonía del Muro de Flores is not just an artwork—it is a shared act of becoming.
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ÉNFASIS
Artist: Daniel Djuro-Goiricelaya
Medium: Interdisciplinary installation, community collaboration, nail art, video, sculpture, text
Year: 2020
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ÉNFASIS is an intimate, evolving work that explores self-care, social awareness, and collective grief. Sparked during the early pandemic by the act of painting his nails—both for protection and expression—Djuro-Goiricelaya found himself drawn into deeper conversations about beauty, mourning, and allyship, particularly in response to violence against Black transgender women.
Through collaborations with friends and community members, nail art becomes a ritual of reflection and solidarity. Each detail—glitter, polish, a held hand—becomes a site of connection and resistance. ÉNFASIS is part installation, part archive, and part act of care: a reminder that even the smallest gestures can carry radical meaning.
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