Tenerife artist Acerina Amador will conduct an artistic residency at La Salita Hall from September 3 to 16, 2025, concluding with a public exhibition of her project titled Anacaona.

Anacaona explores the intersections of gender, work, and racialisation through salsa songs, movement, and text, drawing on anti-racist critiques from Black Marxists, Indigenous intellectuals, and Black and decolonial feminists.

The piece aims to generate a scenic space that uses salsa songs to challenge gender as a modern colonial construct, involving not only a hierarchical division between men and women but also a profound division between humans (white men and women) and non-humans (racialised men and women).

The work includes labour experiences racialised through colonialism, slavery, and up to today, such as plantation and domestic work. The performative construction of the contemporary spirit of Anacaona leads us through Caribbean colonial links and how they resonate with other contexts in exotic island tourist destinations, with new migrant populations arriving by air and by cayuco boats.