On this occasion we will be accompanied by the professor and painter Adolfo Albán Achinte, whom we ask to reflect on the central question of our curation project: How do we imagine the world if Europe (as a programme) had never existed?

The first part of the session will be dedicated to the public presentation of the project by the curators Yuderkys Espinosa and Katia Sepúlveda and the director of La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Valentín Roma

This seminar is part of the project of the collaborative and expository exhibition “THE FUTURE IS GONE: CIMARRON ANTI-FUTURISM” adopts the Anzalduian idea of artistic work as a cure. With the curandería* of the decolonial philosopher of Afro-Caribbean origin Yuderkys Espinosa-Miñoso and the visual artist of Chilean origin Katia Sepúlveda, who invited a group of previously selected individual and collective activist and community artists to take part in a process of collective creation. The artists were asked to use their experiences and enunciative positions to reflect on a series of texts and contexts that hopefully announce the disappearance of Europe and its world project based on the ego conquiro.

*We use the concept “curanderismo” in line with the idea of Gloria Anzaldúa, who takes up the spiritual tradition of the Aztec people, seeing art as a process that creates a reality that, like the shaman or healer, heals the colonial wound and therefore serves the purposes of decolonization.