ÑYC, a photographic series by Colombian photographer Juliana Jaimes, documents Latin American artists living in New York. The series explores how Latinx identity persists in a foreign city, how cultural memory and imagination are carried through migration and reshaped in new geographies. The title replaces the “N” in NYC with “ñ,” a subtle yet deliberate affirmation of language, origin, and belonging.

The first chapter of the series, “Legacy Burdens”, features Colombian artist and designer Giselle Manzano Ramírez, whose sculptural textile work gives physical form to intergenerational trauma. The artist explains that ancestral wounds, cultural imprints, inherited fears, and limiting beliefs are often carried through lineage and stored in the body. Through experimental textile processes, Manzano Ramírez creates sculptural vessels for these burdens and activates them through performance. “I build garments to hold what was carried unspoken,” she says. “Wearing them becomes a ritual of letting go.”

The work unfolds in three acts, structured as ceremonial unburdening. The first act, called Monument, includes a white gown layered with bundled weights. The body is represented as an archive of inherited burden. Act two, “Witness”, displays the removed weights that are placed beside her. Rust marks on the cloth remain like scars and memory loosens its pressure.