Laura Huertas Millán

About The Author

Laura Huertas Millán (born 1983, Colombia) deals with the cultural, medicinal and ritual applications of the coca plant long before cocaine was fi rst produced in nineteenth-century Europe. Based on the prohibition of the plant in the course of the Spanish colonisation of Latin America, she develops a speculative narrative centred on a group of women who secretly distributed coca leaves in the seventeenth century. The artist uses fi ction as a strategy, imagining a fragmentary narrative about the colonial appropriation of nature and the resistance to it.

Books by Laura Huertas Millán

After Nature

Ulrike Crespo Photography Prize 2024 Laura Huertas Millán and Sarker Protick

After Nature is a joint project of the C/O Berlin Foundation and the Crespo Foundation. Every year, the prize honours artists who explore new concepts of nature in photography and other visual media through their work. The accompanying publication presents the work of the fi rst two prizewinners....
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