The project presents a series of six ceramic prototypes of anti-colonial monuments as proposals for replacing the Christopher Columbus monuments erected in Los Angeles, Lima, Madrid, Barcelona, Central Park and Columbus Circle in New York City.

The anti-colonial monumental proposals create a critical narrative of historical, structural and institutional racism and depicts diverse struggles and resistances carried out by racialized communities and Global South populations. 

2018 · Painted ceramics. 5 pieces of variable measures.

This land will never be fertile for having given birth to colonizers

This monument is the proposal to replace the monument to Christopher Columbus of the City of Madrid. The monument shows a migrant woman stepping on the Aluche Immigrant Detention Center. The racialized woman has the phrase “The immigration control system is a continuation of colonialism” written on her shirt and her baby bears the phrase "Dead settler is fertilizer for my garden". The Immigrant Detention Center is surrounded by various heads of dead colonizers. The base of the monument shows the map of Spain painted in red and on the lower edge it can be read the phrase This land will never be fertile for having given birth to colonizers.

On the shoulders of the oppressor our pain will weigh

Proposal to replace the monument to Christopher Columbus in the city of Los Angeles. The monument shows a flower at the top, inside of which you can see a uterus. The first column shows three racialized women who represent different resistances against racist violence exercised over reproductive and family rights. Together with the three women, the phrase Keep your white feminism out of my uterus can be read. In the lower column you can see different news clippings of cases such as the forced sterilization of indigenous women during the Fujimori dictatorship in Peru, the forced removal of custody imposed to migrant minors and families in the Spanish state through mechanisms of the institutional racism with the case of Kelly Agbons as an example and the forced sterilization of migrant women in the city of Los Angeles during the 70's. In the next part you can read the phrase On the shoulders of the oppressor our pain will weigh and below you can see the figure of three white men responsible for different institutions involved in the aforementioned cases.

Burn the ICE · Burn el hielo

Monument designed to replace the Christopher Columbus monument located in New York City's Columbus Circle. The title of the monument alludes to burning the Customs Immigration Agency known by its acronym in English as ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), the ice for Latino migrants.

The monument shows a tree in whose crown is a young migrant pointing with an arrow towards the Trump Tower located in front of the Columbus Circle monument, her T-shirt bears the phrase Migrant youth against deportation. There is a red band on which you can read Deport the colonizer. At the base of the monument there is a migrant child burning a deportation order with a T-shirt with the phrase Antiracist, Anticolonial.

They wanted to bury us but they didn't know we were seed

Proposal to replace the monument to Christopher Columbus in the city of Lima. The monument shows a treetop shape filled with plants. Next to each leaf you can read the name of a murdered anti-extractivist leaders. In the middle part you can see two defenders of the land in a guard position, one wearing a shirt with the phrase Water is worth more than gold and the other fighter wearing a t-shirt with an image of leader Berta Cáceres.

In the inner part of the tree top there are three businessmen responsible for Peruvian mining companies (Roque Benavides from Buenaventura, Julio Morriberon from Southern Peru and Madeleine Osterling Letts from Volcan) who are all tied up by the branches of the tree. Along with these businessmen "arrested" by nature itself there are several logos of different extractivist companies along with the phrase Extractivist violence, colonial violence of the miner and his capital. The monument is designed in such a way that if it rains in the city of Lima due to climate change, the water would accumulate inside, leaving the mining businessmen submerged.

At the base of the monument you can see the development and sprouting of a seed along with the phrase They wanted to bury us but they did not know that we were seed.

Decapitated Columbus

Proposal for the replacement of the Christopher Columbus monument in New York's Central Park. The monument shows the remains of the existing monument after being vandalized and decapitated. You can see images of Hugo Chavez, Micaela Batidas and phrases for the liberation of Palestine, as well as the phrase Fuck you Israel, as well as images of Thomas Sankara and Berta Cáceres.

I do not integrate into your colonial racist system

Proposal to replace the monument to Christopher Columbus in Barcelona. The monument narrates different elements linked to the migratory control system and the Spanish and European institutional racism, from characters such as the director of the Migratory Control Agency, FRONTEX, the use of sedatives during the forced deportation processes and the involvement of different agencies of the Industry of human rights in the process of persecution, detention and deportation of migrants. In the middle there is a racialized young man wearing the 12N anti-racist march t-shirt with the image of Tupac Katari on the back with the phrase I will return and be millions, the young man is surrounded by the writing I do not integrate into your colonial racist system.