La caníbal (The Cannibal)

Ayllu is a collaborative group of research and anti-colonial artistic-political action comprising migrant, racialised, sexual-dissident and gender agents haling from former European colonies. Presented here are different modified lithographs belonging to their Perrear el dolor (Cheating Pain) series, which is based on the appropriation of historical images of colonial narrations.
La cannibal (The Cannibal) extricates a personage from the prints of Theodor de Bry (1528–1598) on the “invention of the Americas”, a series of visual fictions recreated from the accounts of European travellers, chroniclers and conquistadors who disseminated the exotic and savage idea of the “New World” to justify colonial violence and plundering. The scene of cannibalism depicted by De Bry is based on the book True History: An Account of Cannibal Captivity in Brazil (1555) by the German soldier Hans Staden (1525–1579), who was held prisoner for a year among the Tupinambá people that lived on the southern coast of present-day Brazil.

Suset Sánchez Sánchez