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nos invita a sumergirse en la desembocadura de su historia

English translation: invites us to navigate through her personal visual history

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Spanish term or phrase:nos invita a sumergirse en la desembocadura de su historia
English translation:invites us to navigate through her personal visual history
Entered by: teju

17:47 Sep 30, 2015
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting / Art show
Spanish term or phrase: nos invita a sumergirse en la desembocadura de su historia
I'm translating a text to invite people to an art show. Context:

En esta muestra, con estas 40 obras, la artista los invita a sumergirse en la desembocadura de su historia visual personal, a partir de sus vivencias y percepción del entorno de su ciudad natal.

Gracias a todos!
teju
Local time: 15:28
invites us to navigate through her personal visual history
Explanation:
Hola teju!!!

Invites us to navigate through her personal visual history, as seen through the prism of her experiences and her perception of her native city.

(Confieso que no entiendo lo de la "desembocadura")
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George Rabel
Local time: 17:28
Grading comment
Muchas gracias George, saludos.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +1invites you to immerse yourselves in the outpouring of her personal visual story
Andres Fekete
4 +1invites us to navigate through her personal visual history
George Rabel
4invites us to be carried along with the tide of her story
Muriel Vasconcellos
3invites us to dive/ immerse into the outcome
Ana Vozone
3invites us to submerge ourselves in the outpouring of her personal visual story
katemorris02 (X)
1the artist invites [us] to immerse ourselves/delve into her personal outlet of visual history
Taña Dalglish


  

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22 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
invites us to dive/ immerse into the outcome


Explanation:
of his story...

I think this is the meaning: he invites people to immerse in the story of his life.

Example sentence(s):
  • A benefit for the audience of suspending disbelief is thus the ability to immerse in the story without taking a meta-position of judgement.
  • The viewer has to decide if he wants to immerse in the story the photographer wants to tell
Ana Vozone
Local time: 22:28
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 8
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22 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
invites you to immerse yourselves in the outpouring of her personal visual story


Explanation:
...the artist invites you to immerse yourselves in the outpouring of her personal visual history ...

The context says "los" rather than "nos" in the question. Otherwise it would be "the artist invites us to immerse ourselves..."

Andres Fekete
Uruguay
Local time: 18:28
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Lisa Jane: or submerge yourselves-works well with 'outpouring'!
1 hr
  -> Thanks Lisa!
neutral  philgoddard: I don't think we would use the second person plural in this context. Second person singular maybe, but "us" is more appropriate.
13 hrs
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37 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
invites us to navigate through her personal visual history


Explanation:
Hola teju!!!

Invites us to navigate through her personal visual history, as seen through the prism of her experiences and her perception of her native city.

(Confieso que no entiendo lo de la "desembocadura")

George Rabel
Local time: 17:28
Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in category: 44
Grading comment
Muchas gracias George, saludos.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  philgoddard: Or "immerse ourselves in". But I would ignore "desembocadura" - it makes the metaphor too complicated, which I think some of the other answers are.
13 hrs
  -> Exactly, because it appears to be a contradiction;"desembocadura" is where the river ends, so there's no "history"
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45 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 1/5Answerer confidence 1/5
the artist invites [us] to immerse ourselves/delve into her personal outlet of visual history


Explanation:
Just another idea:

[los/nos - you have both] invita a sumergirse en la desembocadura de su historia visual personal ...

the artist invites [us] to immerse ourselves/delve into her personal outlet of visual history, ... experiences and perceptions....hometown. "Outlet" may not be the perfect word, and I am sure other may have better options.

desembocadura
WordReference English-Spanish Dictionary © 2015:
desembocadura nf (final de un río o canal) mouth n
(large river) estuary n
delta - estuario
English:
mouth - outlet

http://es.dicios.com/esen/desembocadura
desembocadura
- mouth
- opening
- outfall
- outlet

HTH!

Taña Dalglish
Jamaica
Local time: 16:28
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 40
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9 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
invites us to be carried along with the tide of her story


Explanation:
I think it's clear that "historia" means 'story' in this case.

Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 14:28
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 92
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4 days   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
invites us to submerge ourselves in the outpouring of her personal visual story


Explanation:
The 'desembocadura' when used in its technical context is the river estuary or mouth of the river. This is where the river water is released to the sea. When used in a different context in this case the work of an artist the mouth of the river can be extrapolated to mean the place where the artist releases their personal story in the format of their art. Like the river outpouring to the sea the artist's story outpours through their works.

Example sentence(s):
  • In an outpour of emotion the artist finally released the anguish of her childhood in her paintings
katemorris02 (X)
Ireland
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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