On Colonialities
Primero estaba el Mar /
In the Beginning
was the Sea
2018 – Ongoing
In the Beginning
was the Sea
2018 – Ongoing
This series engages in a personal search for visual imagineries of mostly contradictory sotries and realities from the Colombian-Caribbean and the signs of colonialty that inform them.
photography, installation
Uncomfortable Mindscapes
2020 – Ongoing
2020 – Ongoing
a non-linear visual narrative developed through a photographic dialogue between Marvin Systermans and Raisa Galofre 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.
Thematically, we explored the spaces between public and private life, between the so-called traditional and modernist, and the state of continuous becoming.
photography, installation
Supporting Surfaces
2019
2019
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.
photography, installation, text
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.
Thomias Radin, David Lombana and
Raisa Galofre.
video, photography, installation, sound
Body of Work: Daughters of the Muntu:
We Travel In Circles
2022
2022
In this sound piece, la rueda de Bullerengue
(the Bullerengue circle) is 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 Bullerengue circle) is 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.
sound and photography
Cantaoras
2022
2022
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.
sound and photography
Home as photo album
2022
2022
Family stories presented in a non-linear way, connecting time, beings and media for the purposes of love, remembrance and eternal presence.
photography
The Salgado family in San Basilio de Palenque carries the legacy of the Batatas and the ceremonial druming and Lumbalú. These photographs portray some of their members, including the legendary cantaora, Graciela Salgado.
photography
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.
traditional concept of “monument” by developing counter-hegemonic proposals from a decolonial, feminist and collective perspective.
collective project: performance, video, sound, photography and online platform.
Bocas de Ceniza / Ash Mouths
ongoing archive of self-made mnemonic artifacts is a reaction against the politics of forgetting deeply rooted in the Colombian society.
photography
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.
video, photography, installation
Espejos Mutantes
currently in post-production
currently in post-production
mirroring back acts of cartography
sound and photography
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.
photography, installation
