Lucila Novoa
artistiek onderzoek - dekolonisatie - performance - lichaam - taal
lucila novoa (b.1979 Bogotá, Colombia) is a Colombian-Dutch artist based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands; she holds a Master of Art Praxis Degree from the Dutch Art Institute (Arnhem, NL). As an adoptee of color, displaced from Colombia to the Netherlands – without her consent – her practice proposes to re-think and disturb the European Western social, political terms of order that surround us . In her artistic practice she rethinks what it means to be human guided by black feminist thinkers such as Sylvia Wynter, Denise Ferreira da Silva and Saidiya Hartman who argue that at the core of contemporary humanness lies a struggle defined by a racialized order of human existence. As a form of critical fabulation she’s introducing the figure of the human adoptee of color - whose life is lived in the absence of cultural memory and a historical archive - to explore the power of speculative absence by seeking hope and healing in the creation of new narratives and embodied experiences.
