I move across multiple languages, media and materials guided by the vibrations of counter-hegemonic embodied epistemologies, technologies and voices from Améfrica Ladina* and the Caribbean, where I come from.

I work with their narrative, aesthetic, sonic and performative characteristics to craft stories that challenge canonical conceptions of being, time and memory and defy the rupture and objectification imposed by colonization and reinforced by coloniality.

In my works I investigate the potentialities of the diasporic being and diasporic knowledges, the his/her/diverse-storytelling as counter-response todominant narratives and I explore the personal and subjective to craft performative acts that unveil internalized imposed categories and norms.

My staged, documentary, sculpture and performance based photographs, performance relics and sound works are mainly informed by the hybrid character of magic-realistic storytelling, African and afro-diasporic epistemologies, and the Caribbean thinking/feeling/sensing.

I see my work as acts of decolonial imagination,
acts of communication between pluralities,
acts of love.

*Léila Gonzalez

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

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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

>> 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

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.

sound piece   

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

portrait series, interviews

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

documentary photography

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

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

photography, video,
performance relic

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

20
21

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

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

20
20

photography, object

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

20
20

photo-performance

bodily thinking, generational healing, self-portraits

20
20

still-life photography

archives in the making, land, environment, coloniality 

20
20

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

still-life, documentary
photography, photographic
dialog

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

20
19

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  

portrait, still-life photography

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

20
16

sculpture-based photography

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

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15 –
20
16

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

photography

generational healing, bodily thinking, archives in the making