Collective composed by Gabriela Estrada Loochkartt and Pablo Lazala Ruiz 


We are two Colombian artists who migrated from Bogotá to Chicago. We met outside our known territory through red powder: Achiote (a tropical seed from the so-called "global South") and red chalk powder. Gabriela collaborates with Achiote to create spells of rematriation and fertilization of land. At the same time, Pablo draws with red chalk powder, engaging with spaces' rituals and the ideologies that haunt and inhabit them. Our practices ask urgent questions/actions around migration, territorial acknowledgment, and food sovereignty. Our actions are a loud denunciation of the relationship of power and domination with which the patriarchal-colonial-capitalist system has been responsible for making us forget that Earth is a sacred womb. We will keep questioning ideals of "progress" that have affected our home territories in Colombia and Latin American diasporas. We have generated curatorial projects, gathering spaces for food knowledge and sharing, and alternative material explorations. This growing collective invites people to remember the importance of having soil in the mouth.