Memorias de Lucha. The encampment at MIT.

Memorias de Lucha. The encampment at MIT.

This project is a Photography Exhibition born to accompany the projection of the Columbia University encampment Documentary made by Watermelon Pictures and distributed by Decolonial Film Festival at the Cine Duchere in Lyon, France.


About the exhibition


This exhibit follows storytelling style, just like my ancestors shared knowledge and teachings. The installation suggests a chronological order telling the story of the encampment, and suggests the participant experience it in a specific order.

What you see in the exhibition is a compilation of collective memories of lucha from participants of the Encampment at MIT.
The story is not mine, but ours: teachers, staff, students, strangers supporting the encampment, of other encampments worldwide, of members in the flotillas, those organizing mutual aid and protests, educating others, having difficult conversations, of ancestors that also resisted and survived, of the Palestinians that refuse to disappear.

At the end, you will find an exhibition within this exhibition. Reflections of the movement seen through the lens of another Indigenous Student.

The encampment was a means of creating an alternative reality on a microscale. Resistance from the inside of one of the arms of the capitalist and colonial system: the institutions of western education.