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

These anti-colonial monument proposals create a critical narrative about historical, structural and institutional racism and describe diverse struggles and resistances carried out by racialized communities and populations in the Global South.

2018 · Painted ceramic. 5 pieces of variable sizes.

This land will never be fertile because it has given birth to settlers.

This monument is the proposal to replace the Christopher Columbus monument in the city of Madrid. The monument shows a migrant woman walking into the Aluche Foreigners' Internment Center. The racialized woman has the phrase "The immigration control system is a continuation of colonialism" written on her t-shirt and her wawa has the phrase "Dead settler, fertilizer for my garden." The foreigners' internment center is surrounded by various heads of dead settlers. The base of the monument shows the map of Spain painted in red and on the lower edge of which you can read the phrase "This land will never be fertile for having given birth to settlers."

Our pain will weigh on the oppressor's shoulders

Proposal to replace the Christopher Columbus monument in the city of Los Angeles. The monument shows a flower at the top, inside of which a uterus can be seen. The first column shows three rationalized women who represent different resistances to racist violence of reproductive and family control. Next to the three women you can read the phrase Keep your white feminism out of my uterus. In the lower column you can see different news clippings of cases such as the forced sterilization of indigenous women during the Fujimorist dictatorship in Peru, the forced removal of migrant minors from custody in the Spanish state using mechanisms of the Immigration Control System with the case of Kelly Agbons as an example, 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 will weigh our pain and below you can see the figure of three white men responsible for different institutions involved in the aforementioned cases.

Burn the ice - Burn the ICE

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

The monument shows a tree with a young migrant girl at its top, pointing an arrow towards Trump Tower, located in front of the current Columbus Circle monument. Her t-shirt reads Migrant youth against deportation. There is a red band on which one can read Deport the colonizer. At the base of the monument there is a migrant boy burning a deportation order, wearing a t-shirt with the phrase Antiracist, Anticolonial.