These Tempestuous Waters, 2025

White chocolate, wax, wrought iron gates / Chocolate blanco, cera, rejas de hierro forjado

78 x 60 x 58 cm

PALMA Galería, Guadalajara

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These tempestuous waters replicates a sculptural relief taken from a monument to Christopher Columbus in Lima, Perú. Rendered in white chocolate and wax, the piece replaces the permanence of marble with fragile, perishable materialities. This material transposition not only challenges the endurance of colonial memory but also evokes the slow erosion of imperial myths. The aquatic beasts featured in the relief evoke the monsters that haunted the colonizer’s imagination: creatures that were once imagined to live at the edge of the world. Ornamental iron details frame the plaque, echoing aesthetics of control and ceremonial grandeur often embedded in nationalist monuments.