On Caribbean Afro-diasporic sonic and bodily knowledges and technologies
Body of work:
Daughters of the Muntu: On ancestral bodily and sonic knowledges of afro-diasporic women in the Colombian-Caribbean.
Daughters of the Muntu: On ancestral bodily and sonic knowledges of afro-diasporic women in the Colombian-Caribbean.
afro-diasporic epistemologies, caribbean, music, bullerengue, rueda de bullerengue (bullerengue circle) dancing stories, baile cantao (sung dance)
sound piece
(2021 - Ongoing) Cantaoras
afro-diasporic epistemologies, storytelling, cantaoras (singers), bullerengue, caribbean, sonic and bodily knowledges
portrait series, interviews
(2021 - Ongoing) Home as a photo album – working title
family photo album, non-linear his/her-story-storytelling, archives, archives of affection
documentary photography
afro-diasporic epistemologies, afro-caribbean literature, womxn, Manuel Zapata Olivella, embodied landscapes
portraits, documentary
photograph
photograph
ancestral sonic and bodily knowledges, family tradition, bullerengue, Colombian-Caribbean
documentary
photography
(Ongoing) Between an ocean, a desert and a cloud
– a collaboration with artist Thomias Radin
and videographer David Lombana
video, photography, sculpture
>> currently in post-production.
On (bodily) monuments, memory and the politics of forgetfulness
(Ongoing) ![]()
www.movementsmanifestingmonuments.com
(coming soon!)
Movements.Manifesting.Movements
Long-term interdisciplinary visual
and performance project + online platform
and performance project + online platform
www.movementsmanifestingmonuments.com
(coming soon!)
who writes her/his/diverse-stories?, herstory-storytelling in public space, corpo-monuments, colonial narratives, anti-colonial responses, intersectional feminism, occupying and transgressing the traditional concept of monuments
performance, staged photography,
video, sound, online platform
video, sound, online platform
>> currently in post-production.
(2020) Bocas de Ceniza / Ash Mouths
archives in the making, mnemonic artifacts, politic of forgetting, Abya Yala, archives of affection
photography, object
On challenging colonial History-storytelling
who writes her/his/another story?, challenging colonial archives, colonial legacy, disrupting narratives
photography, video,
performance relic
performance relic
(Ongoing) Espejos Mutantes / Mutant Mirrors
land, who writes her/his/another story?, maps, cartography, colonial legacy, disrupting narratives
>> currently in post-production.
Staged photography, performance,
sculpture
Staged photography, performance,
sculpture
On another-history-storytelling
who writes her/his/another story?, history-storytelling, magic realism, post-war, re-imaginning archives, re-imaging history, agency to narrate
sculpture-based and staged photography,
collage
collage
On Colonialities
land, caribbean, coloniality, disrupting narratives, new imageries, confronting colonial legacies
still-life, documentary
photography
photography
(2020 - Ongoing)
Uncomfortable Mindscapes
Uncomfortable Mindscapes
archives in the making, land, environment, coloniality
still-life photography
modernity/coloniality in the urban, materials as storytellers, readings of the urban
still-life, documentary
photography, photographic
dialog
photography, photographic
dialog
(2020) Supporting Surfaces
modernity/coloniality in the urban, materials as storytellers, readings of the urban
still-life, documentary
photography
photography
On Nation-state imaginaries and necropolitics
(2017) Tierra Común - Fosa Común
land, necropolitics, Colombia, archives in the making, politics of forgetting
sculpture-based photography
covid pandemic, cuarantine, Colombia, modernity/coloniality in the urban
portrait series
extraordinary in the ordinary, covid pandemic, cuarantine, Colombia
portrait, staged photography
On bodily-thinking and generational healing
a collaboration with artist and filmmaker
Mary Jirmanus Saba
gendered reproductive labour, the reproductive labour of motherhood, artworld, critique
a performance that combines video projection, a delivered text, and a performative act of cultural maintenance
bodily thinking, generational healing, self-portraits
photo-performance
generational healing, bodily thinking, archives in the making
photography
On magic-realistic storytelling in photography
literature, city, Berlin, experiences of the urban, publication
photography, poetry book
