Invisible threads: an offering | Piedra Negra & The Zahíno Community

A live word circle, radio offering & short film screening by Piedra Negra together with the Zahino community and guests.

Moving through vallenato, soundscapes, and memory, the show listens inside the planetary mine—from the coal pits of La Guajira, Colombia, to the power plants of Germany—tracing invisible threads between “here” and “there,” energy and extraction, mourning and resistance.

The broadcast is part of the exhibition ~ piedra negra (Berlin 14.11–30.11), within the transnational art project Polvo & Kohle (German for coal and colloquially for money). Polvo & Kohle sheds light on the chains of extraction, export, and consumption of coal originating from Wayúu territories in La Guajira and their connection to Germany, exposing the continuity of colonial systems and their social, cultural, spiritual, and environmental impacts on Colombia’s largest Indigenous community.

Following the live broadcast, a two-hour program of short films by a constellation of Indigenous and non-Indigenous filmmakers — including Ana Bravo Pérez, Amado Villafaña, Miguel Iván Ramírez Boscán, and Simón Jaramillo Vallejo — extends the conversation on extractivism, memory, and ways of living that preexist, resist, and endure in these territories.

Space hosted by artists Elizabeth Gallón Droste, Simón Jaramillo Vallejo, Camilo Pachón and Pablo Torres in collaboration with Génesis Gutiérrez, Aura, Pablo Muñoz Barragán, and the Zahíno Community.

Photo: Manifiesto de lo no visible, mono channel video by Génesis. La guajira Colombia 2025.