Projects on the effects and consequences of colonization and neo-colonization


APPUNTI PER UN’ORESTIADE AFRICANA -
A DEMOCRACY IN FATIGUE


Memory, violence, woman, postmodernism, pseudo-democracy, neocolonialistic strategies, war, knowledge making, imaginary, stereotypes…. The danger of the single story.

Gibellina (Sicilia, Italia), Tanzania. 2023

USUS FRUCTUS ABUSUS - LA BLANCHE ET LA NOIRE


An urgency to "decolonize" museums


2020-ongoing

WOMAN GO NO'GREE


The effect of colonization on the concept of women and the impossibility of universalizing feminist discourses.

Nigeria, 2017-2019

SUSANNE AND THE ELDER


Parallelism between Artemisia Gentileschi, women at the time of slavery in Africa and African feminist voices.

Madrid,  2017

LA PICNOLEPSIA DE TSHOMBÉ


Images, documents, texts  threaded metaphorically, connecting the present with a recent past, inviting us to think on the unequal, complex relationship established between the West and Africa.

Madrid-RDC, 2015-2016

ELMINA STRATEGY


Neocolonialism tactics.

Ghana, 2017



Projects under the heading “The Idea of Africa”, on the machiavellian generation of imaginary


Síndrome de Ulises I


Appropriation of idealized environments. Copying reality arriving at a terrifying fiction. Solitude. 

2010-2012

Burqacars


Each one of them with it's own personality, big, stylized, funky or chic, in different situations.Like women.

Mali, 2009-2012

La geometría del elefante


Westernization of daily aspects, aesthetics and beauty canons, identifying power with western way of life. Subliminal neo-colonialism.

Bamako(Mali), 2017

LumIeres Noires


Clichés of Western imaginary.
Black on black. African Night. Black lights.

Mali, 2009-2012

La espalda del poder


The most surprising thing about monuments is that we never see them.

Bamako(Mali), 2009-2012

BROKEN


Do we want to keep seeing a broken continent? Is there only destruction?

Mali, 2009-2012

Mosquîsles


Religion, rural world, isolation.

Mali, 2009-2012

Anatomía de un instante


Breaking down the gaze of the everyday.

Mali, 2009-2012



Stereotyping women through erotica and porn


Pleasure


Animated Gif
2017

Hand


Animated Gif
2017

Finger


Animated Gif
2017

Two Men and a Woman


Animated Gif
2017

Once Upon a Time


Film stills from found-footage
2017




On the stereotyping of women

Ophelia


Selfportraits inspired by Shakespeare’s charachter.

Spain/France, 2008




About the fallacy in reasoning produced by the lack of knowledge

La flecha de Zenón


Paradoxes "falsídicas", also called sophistry.

Mali, 2012



Czech Republic



Ivosch


Pure improvement and challenge.

Prostějov, 2019

Strange Places


Social palimpsest.

Prostějov, 2019

ProstÊjov


Solitary walk around industrial areas.

Prostějov, 2019



Polaroids



Liat


Abandoned mines up high in the mountains. Dreamlike landscape.

2008

Un Djin en el jardín


Magical adolescence.

2009

VIlla García nunca existió


Traces at Villa García.

2007

ESTO NO ES UN PAISAJE


This is not a landscape.

2007-2009

DÍPTICOS Y TRÍPTICOS


Diptychs and triptychs.

2007-2010 


Videos

Tempus Irreparabile Fugit


Time fragmented, dissected, hidden, found and forgotten. (Un)measured. Crazy timekeepers.  

2019

LA PICNOLEPSIA DE TSHOMBÉ


Vídeo. 
RDC, 2018