Bogota, Colombia (1995)
Gabriela Estrada Loochkartt is a Latin American artist and ecofeminist. The territory, the mountain that is Mother and Grandmother, is the seed of her work. Her ecofeminist research is tactile, factual, and smeared with dirt. Gabriela built a house on an Andean Mountain, a nest with breathing walls. When creating it, a conversation, a weaving, was opened between three female bodies: the Mountain, the House, and her own. Her work denounces a global lack of listening of the Mother, the relationship of power and domination with which the patriarchal and colonial capitalist system has been responsible for making us forget that the earth is a sacred womb. Her sculptures, weavings, and performances voice a political thought that grounds care before dominance. Gabriela's work is a ritual that honors and recognizes the earth as a body. Gabriela is a guardian of seeds, and with them, she makes woven spells that reach space as a promise of resistance in which she invites "progress" to direct its gaze downwards and backwards.