NOMASMETÁFORAS is a contemporary art and research collective founded by Clara Melniczuk and Julián Dupont, whose work unfolds between Colombia and France at the intersection of art, philosophy, and Indigenous epistemologies. Emerging from more than a decade of collaboration with Nasa healers and the Universidad Autónoma Indígena Intercultural (UAIIN-CRIC) in the Cauca region (Colombia), their practice explores how knowledge can be transmitted through listening, dreaming, and transformation rather than representation. Through installations, performative lectures, and pedagogical experiments, they activate what they call pedagogies of radical imagination, dissolving the boundaries between ritual, sculpture, and theory.

The name NOMASMETÁFORAS (“No More Metaphors”) reflects their commitment to decolonizing thought: to think with forests, clouds, and plants, not about them. For the artists, becoming jaguar, conversing with thunder, or dreaming with coca are not metaphors but technologies of relation that reconfigure what it means to know, to heal, and to coexist.

NOMASMETÁFORAS has led residencies and pedagogical initiatives in Colombia such as The School of the Pluriverse (2024) and KAUKA: Assembly of Possible Worlds (2025). Their work has been presented in exhibitions such as the 2nd Montevideo Biennial, Uruguay (2014); ARTECÁMARA at ARTBO, curated by Helena Producciones (2019); El Alma y la Memoria (Instituto de Visión, New York, 2023); and the collective exhibition COCAWORLDS (United Nations Headquarters & Open Society Foundations, New York, 2024–2025).