EUROPE WILL KNEEL TO RECEIVE THE ANTICOLONIAL SPIRIT 

The Mechelen Cathedral which honors Saint Rumbold's displays its gothic architecture with several stain glass windows which portray diverse figures of the Catholic church, rituals and passages of the Bible. Within this narratives one can find the image of King Leopold III portrayed on his knees and next to his wife receiving the blessing of a priest. In a sovereign scene, wearing a uniform, and with all the symbols that reinforce the idea of a European civilized leader, the king is represented with the characteristic politeness of imperial power, in an image that invisibilizes his role in the violent colonial regime imposed in Congo territory.


The printed backlights depict four proposals for replacing the Saint Rumbold's stain glass that honors Leopold III. From a decolonial and antiracist perspective, and related to the notions of justice approached in her movie “The empire of the Law”, The series of sketches step apart from the critiques to church created from the laic Eurocentric leftwing perspectives and propose a series of images that understand spirituality related to the latinamerican Theology of Liberation, justice away from the the empire of the Eurocentric law and the need of visual reivindication of diverse anti colonial resistances. 


2019 · Digital printing on light boxes · 170 x 100 cm (each)



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