Minia Biabiany explores how bodily perception is intertwined with space, land, and history. Working with installations and videos, she uses weaving gestures to create poetic and political narratives centered on self-awareness and healing. Her work seeks modes of enunciation beyond colonial narratives, particularly in the context of Guadeloupe, addressing the relationships between people, land, and plants.
In El cielo con ojos-raíces, cangrejo, commissioned for the 14th Mercosul Biennial, Biabiany explores the Cirique constellation, shaped like a crab and corresponding to the Pleiades in Western astronomy. It holds significance for the Kalina Indigenous people as a marker of new cycles. The work consists of ceramic containers filled with water and locally gathered vegetation. Reinterpreting elements such as medicinal plants, activist movements, the ka drum, and Guadeloupean imaginaries and cosmogonies, Biabiany proposes a poetic and political approach that connects the sky and the earth to historical and contemporary narratives of anti-colonial resistance and cultural identity.
– Gabriela Wieczorek