Each sculpture in When Falling Feels Like Flying, just five centimeters tall and cast in silver with emerald inserts—speaking to Colombia’s violent history of extraction—consists of a pair of figures. One person stands while holding the full weight of the second: draped across the erect figure’s shoulders, hanging by arms or legs, or carried in front like an offering or pietà. It is a burden never abandoned, transformed into an eternal embrace. Read text by Nikki Columbus here.

installation at Mor Charpentier, Paris. Photos by Nicolas Brasseur.