A Brief History of Wheat / Una Breve Historia del Trigo


To weave together the pieces of a colonial past — where do we begin?

An investigation into the colonial history of wheat, this research-creation work by Allison Figueroa Rojas formed part of the larger project A Body of Borders, developed during an artistic residency at FemArt Barcelona in 2021.


Research and Performance elaborated during Artistic Residency FEMART, Barcelona WINTER 2021

LABOCINE, The Science New Wave - Selected film of the day (2026)
GROUP SHOW EXHIBITION, CALA DONA BARCELONA (2021) 
Screened at DYI FILM FEST CALABRIA 66 BARCELONA (2022)
Live performance, Studio Radas Barcelona for Tierra y Territoria I (2024)


︎ Published in Medium, New Media Advocacy Project (NYC)



Video Poetry 


You are the medicine... 







Travel with filmmakers Allison Figueroa Rojas, Elda Isavelina Ortiz Rivas, and Paulina Quiroz Navarro in ANGEL, STORM, PATH, a homage to the filmmakers Tatiana Huezo and Paz Encina.
This short film formed part of the Archipelago Project, an on-going and collaborative  tribute to women filmmakers.

Resurrecting the pioneering women in film, establishing connections between them and women filmmakers today. 

LAS MANOS DE MI MADRE

Published in Re-enactment Recipes Cook Book 

Winner of the 2019 Design + Community Engagementn award 

Department of Design and Computation Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University.

Conceived and distributed by OK Stamp Press Montreal, Kanien’kehá:ka

Las Manos de mi Madre // My Mother's Hands, was inspired by the women in my family, by traditions, folklore, and corporal memory. By positioning the process and repetition of recreating and re-enacting a family recipe,  recipes then become both culturally infused methods of making and creative writing.

The act of cooking and eating transforms into an investigation on interpersonal relationships, colonial legacies, hegemonic education and thought—the formation of identity, and a means to access and communicate affect and memory. 


Dolores Documentary (2020)
Filmmaker and researcher

“Son minoría las mujeres que escriben, pero en compensación, son mas originales que muchos compañeros.”

Selected Docs Barcelona 2021 

Official Trailer 




Who was Lola? Archival and found footage documentary about  Spanish anarcho-syndicalist, writer and editor Dolores Iturbe Arizcuren.