Natalia Colina's CHARKO Explores Climate Anxiety and Resistance

Natalia Colina (Mexico City, 1999) presents CHARKO, a video work that confronts climate anxiety not as a fear of future disaster but as an ongoing, diffuse experience of irreversible ecological collapse. The piece refuses to offer comfort or distance, instead proposing sustained exposure to discomfort without resolution. It critiques nature documentaries as anxiolytic devices that normalize degradation, turning waste and abjection into landscape. Colina's practice draws on monstrous narratives, error, and hybridity, stitching together stories that were not meant to intersect. Her work has been exhibited at Círculo de Bellas Artes, Cruce Contemporáneo, and Documenta Fifteen with the collective SinFin y Compañer_s. She is represented by i23 gallery and has been awarded by the WE:NOW festival. The piece is part of a broader series titled Outside Lineage, a program of twelve videos that resist hegemonic temporalities and imperial time, drawing on ch'ixi memories (Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui) and the thought of Ailton Krenak and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.