"For me, not only is it an honor to represent El Salvador, I grew up here, but unfortunately, again, we are in another cycle of migration at this moment. For El Salvador, this is the first time we will host our own pavilion-I am filled with joy and happiness. As an artist, I feel very blessed."
"That exhibition went very well and was very well accepted by the theme, by the whole message behind it,"
""Children of the World" first began as a series of semi-abstract paintings in which lines of"
El Salvador will debut its first national pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale. The inaugural pavilion will feature J. Oscar Molina, a Salvadoran American artist born in 1971 who was raised along the Gulf of Fonseca and fled El Salvador in 1989 at age 16 during the civil war. The pavilion, titled "Cartographies of the Displaced," will be curated by Alejandra Cabezas and commissioned by Astrid Bahamond. The exhibition will be staged at the Palazzo Mora in Cannaregio and will include at least 15 of Molina's "Children of the World" sculptures, with some installed in the palazzo's entrance garden. The "Children of the World" series was shown in San Salvador in 2024 and began as a series of semi-abstract paintings.
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