Milena Bonilla

Milena Bonilla’s research-based practice is currently invested in epistemological colonialism and the different ways it affects organisms, language and social structures. By identifying patterns, gaps and silences within specific historical narratives, the artist draws tensions between predetermined political templates and uses of cognition. These conceptual and perceptual exercises appear weaved across the manifold material manifestations of her work. Milena Bonilla is a 2021 fellow and guest alumni resident (together with Ana María Gómez López) at the Institute of Social History (IISH) and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, as well as a resident artist at ZK/U Berlin.