Gabriela Estrada Loochkartt (b. 1995, Bogotá, Colombia) is a mestiza woman. The Mountain that is Mother and Grandmother is the seed of her work. Her ecofeminist research is tactile, factual, and smeared with dirt. Her work denounces a global lack of listening to the Mother, the relationship of power and domination with which the patriarchal and colonial capitalist system has been responsible for making us forget that the Earth is a sacred womb.

Her sculptures, weavings, and performances voice a political thought that places care before dominance. Gabriela’s practice is a ritual that honors and recognizes the Earth as a body; it confronts us with contradictions and vindications questioning the erasure of human and non-human feminine lineages.

Her work stares into the eyes of seeds, which contain the fertile feminine infinity in a single dot. The seed is a space-place, a body that reveals itself with a voice, a shout, and a chant that sweetly scolds. Gabriela is a guardian of seeds, and with them, she weaves spells that ground spaces as a form of resistance, inviting “progress” to turn its gaze downward and backward.