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"My gravitational Installations and Genovideographic projects addresses how immigration has become constitutive of the world today. These projects and installations explore mechanisms of power and violence inherent in the ongoing and open confrontation between different worlds. My installations also reveals how these abstract principles connect to the current political reality in the West on one hand, and on the other, to largely unresolved historical issues such as the colonial past.

With my projects I have the possibility to address one of the most urgent issues of our time, which critically influences the lives of people regardless of their ideological, social, national, or religious backgrounds. Contemporary art here is understood as a site where larger networks of cultural, political, and social discourse intersect, thus creating new possibilities; a site where ideals that could potentially counterbalance repressive developments in the public sphere can be reimagined.

My installations explore the relation between humans, gravity and diaspora. This give me the opportunity of explore with my body and all the gravitational elements that surround my life in new places and new environments. My work consist of multiple video screens with images and interviews, DNA maps, family photos, portraits, sounds, poems in different languages. Every image is link in the installations to the place were my ancestors come from the last 20,000 years. They play as a whole with video, time and space. Reconnecting all this to the issue of my Diaspora. The videos and documentaries are made up of multiple histories and question my role as an Afro Latin American immigrant in a postcolonial society and ultimately, in the contemporary world.

Gravity is always been an elemental factor for all relations humans have on earth. I believe that Diaspora and gravity have a relation with each other. On my installations I explore this relation that goes back to thousands of years in human history. In some of the installations you see me jumping from my origins to a different world, different dimension in space and time. These installations study my situation, On how I got here and who I' am as an artist.

As a Pan Africanist the aim of my work is to create audiovisual storytelling, with gravitational installations and multimedia projects related to gravity, my african identity and the diaspora, using interaction and reaction between different cultural groups internationally". A.J. Guzman