Iki Yos Piña Narváez

An Afro-Caribbean-descendant artist in the diaspora, Iki Yos Piña Narváez explores Black Caribbean anticolonial memories, thought and practices, connecting their personal and bodily experience with the historical resistance of the bodies of escaped slaves. From sexual dissidence and Black / Afro-Indigenous Caribbean futurity, they present the binary scheme of western discourse as a problem. A sociologist by training, they hold a master’s degree in Sociology of Science and Critical Studies. Their most recent work in Barcelona has been with the exhibitions The Earthquake Is Intact (El terremoto está intacto), a critical re-reading of western colonial narratives, together with Jota Mombaça (Joan Miró Foundation, 2023), and Nosymmetries (La Capella art centre, 2024). Their work is included in the Reina Sofía Museum collection and has been shown at the Sydney Biennale (2020), the Third Frestas Triennial of Arts (Brazil, 2021), and the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2022). They have written “No soy queer, soy negrx” (I’m Not Queer, I’m Black) in the book No existe sexo sin racialización (There’s No Sex without Racialisation, Colectivo Ayllu, 2017); “Este cuerpx otrx” (This Other Body) in Inflexión marica. Escrituras del descalabro gay en América Latina (Queer Inflection: Writings from Gay Wounding in Latin America, Editorial Egales, 2018); and No son 50, son 500 años de resistencia (Not 50 But 500 Years of Resistance, Colectivo Ayllu, 2019). They belong to the Ayllu and Don’t Hit a la Negrx collectives, the cooperative Periferia Cimarronas and the experimental Black thinktank In the Wake. Throughout their career, they have participated in student movements, feminist groups of sexual dissidence, and radical alternative education processes with the Red de la Calle (Street Network) collective, as well as giving grassroots anticolonial and artistic practices workshops with racialised communities in Barcelona, Buenos Aires, and Madrid. They also illustrated the cover of the book Feminismos antirracistas: relecturas para el siglo XXI (Antiracist Feminisms: Re-readings for the 21^st Century, Icaria, 2024).