On colonialities
This series explores a personal search for visual imaginaries shaped by the often-contradictory stories and realities of the Colombian Caribbean, along with the signs of coloniality that inform them.
The images of these ongoing series evoke concerns to the notion of endless “growth” and all that comes with it in the caribbean region of Colombia. The project is still a work in progress.
This series is a non-linear visual narrative developed through a photographic dialogue between Marvin Systermans and myself and during numerous forays into the various urban landscapes of Bangalore in India. Thematically, we explored the spaces between public and private life, between the so-called traditional and modernist, and the state of continuous becoming.
Supporting Surfaces is my personal take for the photographic dialogue Concrete Discontinuities. In this series I go beyond the mere representation of the urban and reinterpret it metaphorically through photographic sculptures, stagings and documentary photographs.
Afro-Caribbean sonic and bodily knowledges
Between an Ocean, a desert
and a Cloud (working title)
currently in post-production
and a Cloud (working title)
currently in post-production
A collaborative Caribbean project between Thomias Radin, David Lombana and Raisa Galofre.
Body of Work: Daughters of the Muntu:
In this sound piece, la rueda de Bullerengue (the Bullerengue circle) is understood as a multidimensional and relational space of circular temporalities.
The Cantaoras (Bullerengue singers) stay at the core of this communal becoming, as storytellers and guides for present and future generations.
The Cantaoras (Bullerengue singers) stay at the core of this communal becoming, as storytellers and guides for present and future generations.
A long-term photography and sound project that portrays the Bullerenge Cantaoras (Bullerengue singers) in Colombia and their legacy and role as storytellers, memory makers and maestras of ancestral knowledges.
Family stories presented in a non-linear way, connecting time, beings and media for the purposes of love, remembrance and eternal presence.
Inspired by the storytelling by Manuel Zapata Olivella in his novel Changó, el Gran Putas and its foundations in the Muntu concept and Ubuntu worldview, Daughters of the Muntu offers a glimpse into the presence and stories of Muntu Americanas in the contemporary Colombian Caribbean region. This series presents visual translations of these stories as constellations of interrelated beings.
The Salgado family in San Basilio, in San Basilio de Palenque carries the legacy of the Batatas, the ceremonial druming during the Lumbalú. These photographs portray some of their members, including the legendary cantaora, Graciela Salgado.
On (bodily) monuments, memory and the politics of forgetfulness
A long-term multidisciplinary project and online platform that occupies and transgress the traditional concept of “monument” by developing counter-hegemonic proposals from a decolonial, feminist and collective perspective.
Challenging colonial History-storytelling
In this multimedia performative project I, a Caribbean/Ladina Améfricana woman, engage as a subject wandering, confronting and playing with what she sees and senses in the city of Sevilla and its Archivo General. By performing different acts of “exploration” and “surfacing”, I aim to unveil the traps of the absolutism of these archives while embracing the once denied possibility of telling stories (His-Her-theirstories) otherwise.
Espejos Mutantes /
Mutant Mirrors
currently in post-production
Mutant Mirrors
currently in post-production
Mirroring back acts of carography and othering-making
another History-storytelling
aus Hand und Stein (From Hands and Stones) is an exercise of visual History storytelling from a non-western perspective in the context of western societies and arts. In this narration the facts are extrapolated and stylized with an imaginative tint and the objects represented in the archival images, as well as the materials from which they are made, are extracted from their source to be reinterpreted, staged and represented in new images.
