I Found Windows in the Walls is an installation and performance piece that blends art, memory, and decolonial thought. These miniature sculptures amplify the infinitesimal as a poetic strategy to reveal histories that have been rendered invisible: narratives of migration, colonization, and resistance tucked away in the folds of official history. The work questions what it means to view a colonial archive from the present—not as a neutral repository, but as a living body that breathes wounds, silences, erasures, and possibilities. It is a hybrid language where the image thinks, the shadow writes, and the spectator’s body completes the narrative.

A work conceived in collaboration by artist Celestial Brizuela and researcher Georgeta Bordea (L3i laboratory, La Rochelle Université). Assistance and writing: Carlos Domville. An exclusive creation for the ZERØ1 Festival, made possible through a partnership with La Rochelle Université. This project is part of the EXCELLR initiative (PIA 4 “Excellence in all its forms”) and is funded under France 2030 with the reference ANR21EX ES0010.

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I Found Windows in the Walls is an installation and performance that brings together art, memory, and decolonial thought. These miniature sculptures amplify the infinitesimal as a poetic strategy to bring to light silenced histories: stories of migration, colonization, and resistance nestled in the folds of official history. The work asks what it means to look at a colonial archive from the present—not as a neutral repository, but as a living body that breathes wounds, silences, erasures, and possibilities. It unfolds as a hybrid language in which the image thinks, the shadow writes, and the spectator’s body completes the narrative.

‍Developed as a collaboration between artist Celestial Brizuela and researcher Georgeta Bordea (L3i research unit, La Rochelle Université). Assistance and writing: Carlos Domville. An exclusive creation for the ZERO1 Festival, made possible through a partnership with La Rochelle Université. This work is produced within the framework of the EXCELLR project (PIA 4 “Excellence in all its forms”) and is funded under
France 2030 bearing the reference ANR21EX ES0010.