Bromelias

Bromelias examines the violence that capitalism exerts on the body and the politics of the body, following the research of Silvia Federici and Cynthia Cruz. The work seeks to make visible the layers of violence that capitalism imposes on non-privileged minorities and the invisibilisation of the working class respectively.

The birth of the body in the 17th century also marked its end, as the concept of the body would cease to define a specific organic reality, and become instead a political signifier of class relations, and of the shifting, continuously redrawn boundaries which these relations produce in the map of human exploitation. *

In this autobiographical research project, based on my own experiences and those of people close to me, about the Latin American migrant working class in Europe, I explore the multiplicity of the body, its performative agency, and the spaces it inhabits through a photographic archive—a documentary project that explores and reflects the complex socio-economic dynamics of our time.

* Federici, Silvia. Essay. In Caliban and the Witch (New York, NY: Autonomedia, 2014) p.155.