Ayênan: Water Territories
A Documentary film Co-directed with Lydia Zimmermann. (34 min). 2020Â
Driftless
Driftless Driftless embraces various seascapes as open and public sites for artistic interventions. In this video installation, a performer travels across large bodies of water while drifting away in a precarious raft that references makeshift strategies for border crossing. This cinematic and performative journey across the planet creates a visual narrative that borrows from migration…
Nowhere Islands 2019 (From the ‘Driftless’ Series)
Nowhere Islands add text add text As part of this path, In 2012 I attempted to build the smallest boat that could hold only one person weight. As a result, I devised a precarious way to navigate through large bodies of water using a chair, while sitting and contemplating the landscape from within. This became…
The People’s Monument(s)
The People’s Monument This un-monumental piece explores perceptions of public space, eco-social conditions, the place in history and visions of public art by local residents in Portsmouth (U.K.) By reversing the design process of public art commissions and opening the conversation about how to celebrate the recent city’s histories, this piece becomes the trigger for a public…
Norte Es Sur / South Is North
Norte Es Sur – South Is North In 2015 I completed a photographic book featuring over 30 cities from around the world both in the Northern and Southern hemispheres. The book has been divided in half, with each part touring the world and moving in the opposite direction than its counterpart. The Royal Academy holds…
The People’s Island
The People’s Island The People’s Island is a temporary space / floating platform / Island generated by people (in boats and in land) gathering around a specific spot in the ocean and waterfront, creating a human mass that makes the volume or material of the island. The People’s Island revolves around the idea that reality is none…
Cartographies of the Unseen / Cartografías de lo Invisible
Cartographies of the Unseen This body of works was born out of a participatory research process in the Colombian Pan-Amazon region. The exhibition includes film essays, an artist book, photography, installation and a multichannel video installation produced in collaboration with artist-filmmaker Lydia Zimmerman and presents Ñambi Rimai, an Indigenous Media Collective created in collaboration with…
Upriver / Río Arriba
A body of work that stems from a practice-based research project (PhD) investigating clashing territorial logics in the Colombian Pan-Amazon region.