The effect of forced migration is the subject of these two photographs by Teresa Margolles. They are based on the artist’s research in the border region between San Antonio Tachira, Venezuela and San José de Cúcuta, Colombia, where Margolles lived periodically between 2017 and 2019. Since 2013 millions of Venezuelans have fled their country, with a large majority crossing illegally into Colombia via escape routes referend to as “trochas.” Once in Cúcuta, both men and women migrants are forced to take on heavy manual labor. For mothers with young children, these challenges are increased, as they negotiate the security and care of their children with their need to generate income. Margolles’ Trocheras con pretal portrays a group of these women standing defiantly across a road, each holding makeshift weapons. In the second photograph Mujeres venezolanas en la frontera con Colombia (Venezuelan Women at the Border with Colombia), a group of these mothers are depicted holding their small children. With this project the artist engages this specific context and the experiences of these women in order to address tensions around migration globally and the resulting effects of poverty, vulnerability, and discrimination.