EUROPE WILL RECEIVE THE ANTI-COLONIAL SPIRIT ON ITS KNEES
The panels show four proposals for replacing the stained glass windows of Saint Rumbold's Cathedral in the city of Mechelen, Belgium, whose windows display various images glorifying the Belgian monarchy. A central figure in the cathedral's depictions is Leopold III, King of Belgium, who was monarch during the last period of imposition of the colonial system in the territories of the Congo, also during the process of persecution of the first independent government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the assassination of the anti-colonial leader and Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Patrice Lumumba.
The replacement proposals show Patrice Lumumba being listened to and honored by various peoples of Abya Yala with a sign that reads "Liberation Struggle," another stained glass window shows the priest and member of the National Liberation Army (ELN), Camilo Torres, who, based on an interpretation of the gospel from the perspective of liberation theology, decides to take up arms in the anti-capitalist struggle. A third stained glass window narrates the ties to the land and its defense by organized peoples against the colonial order, and finally, the fourth stained glass window shows Fabrice Leggeri, director of the border control agency FRONTEX, burning in hell during the final judgment.
The project proposes an approach to the spirituality of liberation theology, as well as a critique of the Eurocentric and racist logic imposed by secularist, atheist and agnosticist discourses.
2019 · Digital printing on light boxes 170 x 100 cm (each)