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index of works

year

work

key topics / concepts

2019 – Ongoing

Movements.Manifesting.Monuments

Long-term interdisciplinary visual and performance project + online platform

Web: www.movementsmanifestingmonuments.com (coming soon!)

performance, photography, video, sound and online platform
>> currently in post-production.

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

2022

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, traces, coloniality, monuments

2009 – Ongoing

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

photography & sound

(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

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

documentary photography

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

(2015 - 2021) Daughters of the Muntu: A Pluriverse

photography

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

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

documentary photography

2021

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

photography, poetry, book

literature, experience of the city, publication

2021

Manufacture of distorted images

photography + video + object

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

2021

Espejos Mutantes / Mutant Mirrors

>> currently in post-production. Photography + object + performance

land, who writes her/his/another story?, maps, cartography, colonial legacy, colonization, mirrors

2020

Bocas de Ceniza / Ash Mouths

photography + object

archives in the making, mnemonic artifacts, politic of forgettin

2020

De las Raíces / From the Roots

photography: photo-performance

bodily thinking, generational healing, self-portraits

2020

Uncomfortable Mindscapes

photography

archives in the making, land, environment,

2020

Toque de Queda / Under Lockdown

portraits and staged photography

extraordinary in the ordinary, covid pandemic, cuarantine, Colombia

2020

Echando pa’lante / Moving Forward

portrait series

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

2019

Concrete Discontinuities -
Narratives of Dwelling and Becoming in the Urban

photographic dialog

modernity/coloniality in the urban, materials as storytellers, city,

2019

Supporting Surfaces

photography

modernity/coloniality in the urban, materials as storytellers, city

2018

Primero Estaba el Mar / In the Beginning was the Sea

photography

land, caribbean, coloniality

2017

Show me your Europe

photography

land, politics of the imagination

2016

Tierra Común – Fosa Común

photography + object

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

2015 – 2016

Aus Hand und Stein / From Hands and Stones

photography + collage

who writes her/his/another story?, history-storytelling, magic realism

2014

hierzulande

photography + book dummy

magic realism, stories

2010 – 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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