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On Caribbean Afro-diasporic sonic and bodily knowledges
︎Body of work: Daughters of the Muntu
︎Between an Ocean, a Desert and a Cloud

On monuments and archives in the making
︎Movements.Manifesting.Monuments
︎Bocas de Ceniza/ Ash Mouths

On challenging colonial History-storytelling
︎Manufacture of Distorted Images
︎Espejos Mutantes / Mutant Mirrors

On another-history-storytelling
︎Aus Hand und Stein / From Hands and Stones

On experiences of the Urban
︎sieben utopische dinge – Anthrazit
︎Concrete Discontinuities
︎Supporting Surfaces

On Colonialities
︎Primero Estaba el Mar / In the Beginning was the Sea
︎Uncomfortable Mindscapes
︎Concrete Discontinuities
︎Supporting Surfaces

On Nation-state imaginaries and politics
︎Tierra Común - Fosa Común
︎Show me your Europe
︎Echando Pa’lante

On bodily-thinking and generational healing
︎De las Raíces / From the Roots
︎Self-portraits / Self-fictions

On magic-realistic storytelling in photography
︎hierzulande / In this Land
︎Aus Hand und Stein / From Hands and Stones

Year

Work

Medium

Key topics

20
24

A Labor Theory of Artistic Value
a collaboration with artist and filmmaker
Mary Jirmanus Saba

a performance that combines video projection, a delivered text, and a performative act of cultural maintenance (soon online)

gendered reproductive labour, the reproductive labour of motherhood, artworld, critique

20
22

Between an ocean, a desert and a cloud
– a collaboration with artist Thomias Radin
and videographer David Lombana

>> currently in post-production
performance based photography,
video, sculpture

Caribbean collaboration: Guadeloupe and Barranquilla, bodily thinking, Caribbean thinking/sensing/being, dance, borderlands, coloniality, monuments

20
19
Ongoing

Movements.Manifesting.Monuments

Long-term interdisciplinary visual
and performance project + online platform

www.movementsmanifestingmonuments.com
(coming soon!)

performance, staged photography,
video, sound, online platform

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

20
09 Ongoing

Body of work:
Daughters of the Muntu: On ancestral bodily and sonic knowledges of afro-diasporic women in the Colombian-Caribbean.

(2022) We travel in Circles
/ Viajamos en Rondas

sound piece

afro-diasporic epistemologies, caribbean, music, bullerengue, rueda de bullerengue (bullerengue circle) dancing stories, baile cantao (sung dance)

(2021 - Ongoing) Cantaoras

portrait series, interviews

afro-diasporic epistemologies, storytelling, cantaoras (singers), bullerengue, caribbean, sonic and bodily knowledges

(2021 - Ongoing) Home as a photo album
– working title

documentary photography

family photo album, non-linear his/her-story-storytelling, archives, archives of affection

(2021) Daughters of the Muntu:
A Pluriverse

portraits, documentary
photography

afro-diasporic epistemologies, afro-caribbean literature, womxn, Manuel Zapata Olivella, embodied landscapes

(2009) Graciela Salgado y
Las Alegres Ambulancias de San
Basilio de Palenque

documentary photography

ancestral sonic and bodily knowledges, family tradition, bullerengue, Colombian-Caribbean

20
21

sieben utopische dinge
– Anthrazit
A collaboration with author
Sarah Claire Wray

photography, poetry book

literature, city, Berlin, experiences of the urban, publication

20
21

Manufacture of
distorted images

photography, video,
performance relic

who writes her/his/another story?, challenging colonial archives, colonial legacy, disrupting narratives

20
21

Espejos Mutantes
/ Mutant Mirrors

>> currently in post-production.
Staged photography, performance,
sculpture

land, who writes her/his/another story?, maps, cartography, colonial legacy, disrupting narratives

20
20

Bocas de Ceniza
/ Ash Mouths

photography, object

archives in the making, mnemonic artifacts, politic of forgetting, Abya Yala, archives of affection

20
20

De las Raíces
/ From the Roots

photo-performance

bodily thinking, generational healing, self-portraits

20
20

Uncomfortable Mindscapes

still-life photography

archives in the making, land, environment, coloniality

20
20

Toque de Queda
/ Under Lockdown

portrait, staged photography

extraordinary in the ordinary, covid pandemic, cuarantine, Colombia

20
20

Echando pa’lante
/ Moving Forward

portrait series

covid pandemic, cuarantine, Colombia, modernity/coloniality in the urban

20
19

Concrete Discontinuities -
Narratives of Dwelling and
Becoming in the Urban

still-life, documentary
photography, photographic
dialog

modernity/coloniality in the urban, materials as storytellers, readings of the urban

20
19

Supporting Surfaces

still-life, documentary
photography

modernity/coloniality in the urban, materials as storytellers, readings of the urban

20
18

Primero Estaba el Mar
/ In the Beginning was the Sea

still-life, documentary
photography

land, caribbean, coloniality, disrupting narratives, new imageries, confronting colonial legacies

20
17

Show me your Europe

portrait, still-life photography

land, politics of the imagination, imagineries and sense of a space

20
16

Tierra Común – Fosa Común

sculpture-based photography

land, necropolitics, Colombia, archives in the making, politics of forgetting

20
15 –
20
16

Aus Hand und Stein
/ From Hands and Stones

sculpture-based and staged photography,
collage

who writes her/his/another story?, history-storytelling, magic realism, post-war, re-imaginning archives, re-imaging history, agency to narrate

20
14

hierzulande

staged photography, book dummy

magic realism, storytelling,

20
10
Ongoing

Self-portraits
/ Self-fictions

photography

generational healing, bodily thinking, archives in the making

Portraits from Toque de Queda

Artist Michelle Nze photographed at SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, 2019

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