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# Ana Vaz decolonizes minds at Vienna Secession
- URL: https://www.kinoki.co/ana-vaz-decolonizes-minds-at-vienna-secession/
- Published: 2025-03-07T01:06:18.000Z
- Updated: 2025-03-27T00:42:33.000Z
- Description: The exhibition presents the new film series Meteoro, which explores the impact of ecological ruin and the continued colonization of the earth.
- Author: David Djordjevic
- Tags: News, exhibition, film, environment

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Secession, Austria's preeminent artist-run kunsthalle, [is showing the film series *Meteoro*](https://secession.at/ausstellung%5Fana%5Fvaz%5FEN?ref=kinoki.co) (2023-ongoing) by Ana Vaz. In her work, Vaz takes a critical approach to how violence and repression leave scars upon the landscape and [the impact that the continued colonization of the earth](https://ciencia.ucp.pt/ws/portalfiles/portal/90352245/44058746.pdf?ref=kinoki.co) has on the unfolding ecological ruin. Through the poetic interplay of collaged images and sound, Vaz undermines the overarching narrative of Western modernity and documents [the detrimental aftermath](https://opencitylondon.com/non-fiction/issue-3-space/conversation-piece/?ref=kinoki.co) that it leaves across the vast expanses of this planet.

In this latest film poem by the Brazilian artist, Vaz hones in on two European cities – Paris and Porto – portraying them as being on the brink of imminent collapse or on the path to obsolescence. The tale of these two cities unfolds on twin screens, where [Vaz contrasts contradictory images from their pasts and their presents](https://slash-paris.com/articles/ana-vaz-meteoro-2023?ref=kinoki.co), with animals, minerals, organic materials and artificial constructions racing past in quick succession. [Rendered in black and white images](https://harvardfilmarchive.org/programs/excavating-subterranea?ref=kinoki.co), *Meteoro* uncovers the disastrous imprint left by an Empire founded upon colonial violence, displacement and excessive consumption.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/98/98/98986ef2-474e-4f7c-82a5-62d592178e78/content/images/2025/03/ana_vaz_artiste_fondation_ricard_3-1_medium-1.jpg)

Ana Vaz, **Meteoro* , 2023\. View of the exhibition Do You Believe in Ghosts? at the Pernod Ricard Foundation. © Aurélien Mole.

Vaz has divided her film poem into three chapters, wherein she posits a “counter-ethnography” in which the landmarks and infrastructures of these two cities are reflected and refracted. The film was developed in collaboration with Tuareg researcher [Maïa Tellit Hawad](https://www.instagram.com/haia.mawad/?ref=kinoki.co), Franco-Guadeloupean author [Olivier Marboeuf](https://olivier-marboeuf.com/?ref=kinoki.co), and Portuguese artist [Isabel Carvalho](https://isabelcarvalho.net/?ref=kinoki.co), each of whom worked on a chapter. Hawad incorporates the apocalyptic poetry of her father, describing the impact of mining on Tuareg lands, and interweaves it with the accounts of Parisians, creating a hallucinatory sojourn through a city gripped by chaos.

In the other two chapters, the act of looking is superseded by an intensely corporeal experience, hinting at a [break from the “tyranny” of the abstract gaze](https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/621918/ana-vazo-que-aconteceu-ainda-est-porvir/?ref=kinoki.co) and a shift towards the [concreteness of the camera's instantiation](https://www.diagonalthoughts.com/?p=3575&ref=kinoki.co) in the spatio-temporal dimension. The artistic techniques that Vaz applies in her work reveal [her conviction in the power of film](https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/blog/geographies-cinema-conversation-between-ana-vaz-and-nella-aarne?ref=kinoki.co) to “decolonize the mind.” 

*Meteoro* at Vienna Secession opens on March 8 and runs until May 18, 2025\. For more information on this exhibition and other events at Vienna Secession, visit [their site](https://secession.at/?ref=kinoki.co).