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Immigrating to America can be difficult without knowledge of the English language, but for three South American artists, it opened the pathway to dialogue and art.

"Los Dialoguistas Visual Art Installation," a collaborative project by Graciela Bustos, a Colombian-American, Fernando Calderon, a Bolivian-American, and Bertha Cohen, a Brazilian-American, is on display now through March 31 in ArtStreet Studio D.

The artists produced installation works specifically for this show.

"It is art that considers the entire space, the environment, the lights [and] the windows," said Dr. Judith Huacuja, a visual arts professor at UD. "It's called site-specific, which means that the artists came here and spend time in the space, and when they went back to their studios, [they] created art that responded to that space."

The artists worked together to look at places, events and environments and then engaged in dialogue that helps ideas emerge on how to develop a particular space, Huacuja said.

"The reasons why we work in collaboration with each other [are] because it is more interesting, and we feed from each other's ideas," Cohen said.

One of the art installations is paper that has been turned jet black by smoke. It is fragile and would fall apart if touched.

"Transience fuels dialogue," the artists' statement said. "It's immediate and imprints into our consciousness. That's how we as the dialoguistas view everyday life; it's here and then gone. Each of our human interactions are unique and then disappears like smoke."

The installation is presented in conjunction with an event titled "Dialogue: A Colloquium on Discourse through Art" at 7:30 p.m. March 18 in Sears Recital Hall.

The event will include readings from contemporary literature and dialogue between visiting writers and artists from Spain and Latin America.

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