Gala Porras-Kim

Gala Porras-Kim (1984, Bogota, Colombia) investigates the political, social, economic and spiritual contexts that determined the value of objects during the history of colonialism. Her interest is centered on human remains and on material and immaterial goods from indigenous cultures that have been converted into cultural assets preserved within the political and intellectual supremacy of the West. The artist’s analysis ranges from the violent processes of extracting and circulating such objects to the methodologies of storage and classification used by the collectors and/or cultural institutions that receive them, especially museums of history and anthropology.