el derecho a nuestros mundos / the right to our worlds, 2025
floor piece activated through performance, 1,5m x 1.5m
After finding out that museums from the Global North do not only collect whole cultural artefacts, but also hundreds of fragments, I became obsessed with looking for them in their digital archives. El derecho a nuestros mundos was created with fragments of broken Latin American artefacts kept at the archive of Musée du Quai Branly (Paris, FR). If we understand colonialism as a practice that destroys worlds, we can begin to see these fragments as relics of the worlds torn apart by plunder. The museum, through its fetishist obsession with the object, ends up collecting the proof of its own violence.
Refusing to feel hopelessness in front of these looted artefacts, I reflect on their resilience and what can emerge from them. Activated through a performance piece that takes the form of an anti-colonial spell and invokation of fragments, these pieces become a powerful site for potential futures.
Performed at the Hangar Space, Royal College of Art.
April 2025.