The city of Seville, Spain, is home to the Archivo General de Indias, the institution that preserves and safeguards a vast collection of documents related to the colonization of Améfrica Ladina/Abya Yala (the Americas) and the Caribbean from the Spanish perspective. Beyond its archival significance, Seville and its port played a pivotal role in the expansion and consolidation of colonial enterprises during the first decades of Spanish overseas rule. Today, both visible and subtle traces of this history remain embedded in the city's urban fabric, architecture, and collective memory.

In this multimedia performative project, I— a woman from the Caribbean and Abya Yala—engage as a wandering subject, confronting, sensing, and playfully interacting with the city of Sevilla and its Archivo General. Through acts of exploration and surfacing, I seek to expose the limitations and traps of archival absolutism while embracing the once-denied possibility of telling stories—histories, herstories, and theirstories—otherwise.

wanderings in Sevilla responding to traces and sings that connect to the stories in the Archivo General de Indias

Acts of surfacing (videos):
Exploring an unknown surface (territory).
Encountering and holding the findings. Reading them.
Using the pencil of the Archivo General as the tool.
The pencil is supposed help the exploring process by revealing and discovering the new and unknown findings. It might bring understanding.
The unvailed picture – handmade photocopy – is not more an blurry interpretation.

Objects used for the action in the video: blank white paper, Euro coin and the pencil from the Archivo General.

Selection:

hand made photocopies of coins on white paper and photos of exhibited objects, images and sculptres in and around the Archivo General de Indias.