Nuestro juramento / Altar a nuestra señora de los papeles y los placeres de las migrantes

Migrants, Afro-descendants and people of Indian descent live with a long living memory of colonisation and colonialism. We carry the cross of white-centred Christian imposition, but also the huayruros of Afro-indigenous resistances that have broken through the normativity of the modern-heterocolonial project.

Through the two works produced expressly for this exhibition, the Colectivo Ayllu seeks ways to activate these memories of violence and resistance in order to search for healing imaginations in the face of the historical and contemporary violence of racism and colonialism in which we live. That is why we pray and dance to our lady of migrant roles and pleasures, vowing to resist the tradition of all whiteness in order to love each other until after death and, as Julio Jaramillo would say, to write the history of our love.

Nuestro juramento: performance - photo and video, 25', 2022.

Altar a nuestra señora de los papeles y los placeres de les migrantes: installation with sacred objects, sculptures, vinyls, silkscreens, sand, tapes, audio and video, 2022.

"And do the Spaniards also go to heaven? I don't want to go there, but to hell, not to be where they are and not to see such cruel people".
Hatuey, 1511

Colectivo Ayllu is a collaborative group of research and artistic-political action formed by racialised migrants, sexual and gender dissidents from former European colonies in Latin America and the Caribbean. The collective was born in 2017 (heirs of Migrantes Transgresorxs, created in 2009) and proposes a critique of colonialism by making artistic productions in multiple formats and generating processes of collective learning, mediation and written production. Ayllu, which in Quechua means "extended or non-blood family", is based between the cities of Madrid and Barcelona, and represents an affective community, a family that is woven from different places, recovering ancestral memory and transiting with other poetics to collective future places. 

It is formed by: 

Alex Aguirre Sánchez: Master in Immigration (UC3M). Therapist in Humanistic Gestalt Psychology. Accompaniment in Community Health of gender identities and sexual orientation.  Transfeminist and anti-racist activist from Ecuador. 

Leticia (Kimy) Rojas Miranda: PhD in Sociology and Anthropology (UCM), researcher in Critical Feminist Theory (UCM) and Master in Gender and Development (FLACSO-Ecuador); anti-racist and decolonial trans diasporic activist, founder of various sexual and gender dissident organisations and collectives in Spain and Ecuador. 

Lucrecia Masson Córdoba: migrant, disobedient to heterosexuality, anti-racist, transfeminist and autoimmune fat. She is a writer, artist and transdisciplinary researcher. PhD candidate in Philosophy (UZ). 

Iki Yos Piña Narváez: Afrocaribeñx, trans no binarix. Artist, writer, performer, drawer, sociologist. Researches anti-colonial archives and black radical thought. She participated in the Independent Studies Programme (PEI 2014-2015) at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona - Macba.

Francisco Godoy Vega: PhD in History of Art and Visual Culture (UAM). Poet and curator marica indiodescendiente. He is the author of, among others, La revolución de las ratas (2013) and La exposición como recolonización (2018).

They collaborated in the production of Our Oath:
Photography: Groupie D. (Sao Gabriel, Brazil)
Video: Danny Arcos
Sound: Tidiane Diedhiou Dianara
Production coordinator: Patty Barleycorn Orobiyi (Madrid, 1990), Cooperativa Periferia Cimarronas
Costumes and styling: Satan (San Felipe Yaracuy, 1997)
Make-up: Jonah Kawri Ramírez Sturzenegger (Barcelona, Spain, 1997).

Guest performers:
Amanda Araújo AKA KAYK (Aracaju-SE BR, 1994)
Carol Cazal (Villa Hayes, Paraguay) 
Cacao Díaz (Maracaibo/zulia, 1992)
André Lopez (Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 1989)
Silvia Albert Sopale (San Sebastián, Guipúzcoa, 1976)