magdalena

Magdalena , Admiralsbrücke, Berlin

2021 | Magdalena is a macro-flag collectively stitched and painted from recycled fabrics by Colombian migrants in Berlin. A textile and performative work that honors rivers as living ecosystems and political witnesses, inseparable from the communities bound to them, and vulnerable to violence, extraction, and neglect.

Magdalena, Admiralsbrücke, Berlin

2021 | Born from the 2021 Colombian national strike, when disappeared protesters were found in the country's rivers, Magdalena travels to sites where environmental degradation and state violence converge, in collaboration with local human rights and environmental collectives, rooted in the ecological and social history of each waterway.

Magdalena , Admiralsbrücke, Berlin

2021 | Our collaboration, Hidromemorial, formed by Juan Camilo Alfonso and myself out of this action, is rooted in the belief that landscapes are living systems holding layered stories and lives: ecological and human memory, migration, and collective action made visible through participatory interventions, performance, and craft. Through this work, we water spaces of collective care.

Magdalena, Puerto Rico, Caquetá

2021 | In Caquetá, Magdalena bore witness to a river landscape scarred by armed conflict and abandonment — in collaboration with Colectivo Artístico Las Botellas and ASOJORIO (Asociación de Jóvenes por Rionegro)

Magdalena, Mocoa, Putumayo

2023 | In Putumayo, Magdalena was hung over the Sangoyaco and Pepino rivers to memorialize victims of the 2017 Mocoa mudslide , a disaster shaped by deforestation, extractive industry, and government negligence. In collaboration with Alianza de Mujeres Tejedoras de Vida del Putumayo and Batucada de Mujeres Tejedoras de Vida.

Magdalena, Ciudad Juarez border between Mexico and the USA

2024 | At Puente Negro on the Ciudad Juárez/El Paso border, Magdalena addressed the Rio Grande as a site of migration, militarization, and ecological rupture. In collaboration with Bicis pa la Banda, Edificio de los Sueños, and Azul Arena.