An installation that is a proposal for a feminist decolonial anti-monument commemorating women social leaders on the frontlines of the climate crisis in Abya Yala. The 16mm projections feature footage of performances by a diasporic community filmed at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, while the film looped onto a gallery wall forms a graph about the loss of biodiversity, social leaders, and tropical rainforest. The projection screens weaved with toquilla straw and the embroidered textiles are collectively made by hand to honour the vital work of many Indigenous, Afro-Colombian women social leaders and environmentalists who opposed ecological destruction and protected their communities, territories, and life support systems. Crafted with artists and diasporas in the Netherlands and traditional weaving cooperatives in Colombia, it forms a living document of communal work and collective memories.

Ana Bravo-Pérez is an artist and filmmaker born and raised in Pasto, Andean- Amazonian Piedmont in Abya Yala. She is currently based in Amsterdam. She uses her own migratory and diasporic experiences as a starting point for her artistic projects investigating suppressed narratives and collective histories. An important theme in her work is how to deal with violence visually without representing it, serving as a way of healing colonial wounds. The artist works with coal, celluloid, cotton, gold, and plants like coca and toquilla palm to investigate colonial legacies and continued exploitation in the present-day. Her art projects propose decolonial and feminist ways of relating to the Earth and its beings.

Developed with additional support of the Mondriaan Fonds International Art Presentation grant.