Between 1503 and 1660, 185.000kg of gold were taken to Spain from its Latin American colonies, initiating a painful process of extractivism that forged the idea of Latin America as an endlessly abundant land to be exploited at the service of Europe.
In Historical Materialism, images of gold artefacts from the archive of the Museum of America (Madrid, Spain) are combined with images of my personal collection of gold jewellery, drawing a line between two types of archives - the body as an archive able to subvert history (embodied history), and the colonial archive where objects sit disconnected from their communities (fetishized history).
2023.
A3, risograph-printed in one ink at Duplikat Press (London, UK).