Violette Bule, a Venezuelan-Lebanese artist, will give an artist talk at the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art on Tuesday, November 19, at 7 PM. Bule’s artwork explores the liminal spaces between art-making and everyday labor. During the talk, she will present work from several projects, including her reflections on the service industry and gig economy, the issue of Femicide, the neglected potholes in Caracas, Venezuela, and her experience teaching photography to inmates in Venezuelan Penitentiaries. Bule uses social and economic vulnerability as tools for creativity and political empowerment, addressing themes such as identity, memory, violence, and digital technology.

Bule studied at the Escuela Activa de Fotografía in Mexico City and earned an MFA in Studio Art at the University of Houston. Her work has been in several group and individual exhibitions lately, including the biennial exhibition La Poli/Gráfica de Puerto Rico and The Caribbean, Bajo Presión / Under Pressure, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2024; Day Jobs at the Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University and the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, 2023-24. She received the 2023 Horton/Artadia Award in Houston, TX. She was an artist-in-residence at the University of Texas in 2024 and Cornell University in 2022. Her book De la Lleca al Cohue: Photography in Venezuelan penitentiaries was recently published by Roga Ediciones. She recently returned from installing her work in Project Row Houses Round 57: Southern Survey Biennial II in Houston.