My name is Lucila Novoa (b.1979 Bogotá, Colombia), a Colombian-Dutch artist, writer and performer based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. As an adoptee of color, displaced from Colombia to the Netherlands without my consent, my artistic practice rethinks what it means to be human. Guided by black feminist thinkers such as Sylvia Wynter, Denise Ferreira da Silva and Saidiya Hartman, I argue that at the core of contemporary humanness lies a struggle defined by a racialized order of human existence. This struggle shapes not only the lives of racialized Others but, to varying degrees, impacts all human beings on a global scale. Through critical fabulation, my practice troubles the colonial category of the human by introducing the figure of the human adoptee of color, a life unfolding in the absence of cultural memory and historical archive. From this speculative absence, I seek to imagine hope and healing through the creation of new decolonial narratives and embodied experiences.

Exhibitions, performances, readings, workshops have been hosted by and collaborated with Colored Qollective (Utrecht, NL),  Read My World Festival (Amsterdam, NL), Pelumi Adejumo, Geo Wyex, Lucciana Bolivar, Ellen Rooijakkers, Zoe Scoglio, edition~verso (Johannesburg, SA), Daily Practice (Rotterdam, NL), H47 (Leeuwarden, NL), A Tale of A Tub (Rotterdam, NL), V2_Lab for the Unstable Media (Rotterdam, NL), Hordaland Kunstsenter (Bergen, Norway), Shimmer (Rotterdam, NL), Billytown (The Hague, NL). Residencies at edition~verso (Johannesburg, SA), Artist Proof Studio (Johannesburg, SA) and AGALAB (Amsterdam, NL). Works and or publications can be found at Billytown Bookshop, Books@, Framer Framed, KIOSK Rotterdam, Page Not Found, San Serriffe.

contact me at lucila@lucilanovoa.nl or on instagram