<sup>Previous research with the Latin American community in the London neighbourhood of Elephant & Castle—now facing displacement due to rapid gentrification—revealed a striking contrast: while institutions like the British Museum meticulously preserve looted pre-Columbian artefacts, the immigrant communities who share their ancestrality and inhabit the same urban landscape experience systemic neglect.

With that in mind I create the fictional Museum of Disobedience— it operates as a speculative space that challenges the museum as an imperial construct, critiquing its ideas of ownership, preservation, and knowledge production. It presents works rooted in ritual practices as long-standing forms of resistance by othered communities. It honours oral history, popular traditions, and ritual customs, celebrating ancestral knowledge. Almost everything in the museum is perishable, sometimes even consumable: sculptures are made of dough and sugar, and pinhole cameras are made of fresh fruit.
These artefacts cannot be owned or preserved; they continue to exist only through oral storytelling.</sup>

^{Bread Sculpture (Tolima figure)}

^{Sugar and purple corn flour effigy}

^{Bread Chicomecoatl}

^{Installation view, Royal College of Art Arts & Humanities 2025 show.}