Museum of Disobedience is an exploration grounded in extensive research on Elephant & Castle, a vital hub for South American and other diasporic communities. Interweaving historical allegories and ancestral mythologies, the work investigates the poetics of resistance within Latin American communities as they unfold across space and time.
It reflects on how societies shaped by the Western epistemic and political project of modernity/coloniality respond to cultural and political events—and how marginalised communities counter this through epistemic disobedience.
Not far from Elephant & Castle, the British Museum houses pre-Columbian objects looted from across Latin America. This contrast—between the meticulous preservation of these artefacts and the systemic neglect of immigrant communities—frames the project’s critique.
To tap into epistemic disobedience, the Museum of Disobedience draws on ritual practices as a disruptive force used since colonial times to confront ongoing cultural oppression. It honours oral histories, popular traditions, and folklore, creating space to celebrate surviving ancestral knowledge against the Western ideal of scientific objectivity and permanence.
The museum presents artefacts from an unofficial history within a speculative space that challenges the museum as an imperial machine. Most objects are perishable—sculptures made of food or unfired clay, cameras crafted from fruit—rejecting preservation and ownership in favour of ephemerality and imagination.
Bread Sculptures
Love the Elephant, Hate Gentrification
Holy Pareidolia
Fruit Pinhole
But the Skin of the Earth is Seamless
Replica