Howls in the Mountains is a multi-channel audiovisual installation based on a research project carried out in El Huila, Colombia over a period of one year. The project is based on the stories of women who are active members of Asomhupaz (Association of Huila Women for Peace). Asomhupaz is an association made up of women in the process of reincorporation, victims, peasants and mothers who are heads of households, created in Huila (state in southern Colombia), with the aim of guaranteeing, defending, and strengthening their rights, promoting political participation. and democratic, demanding a comprehensive implementation of the Peace Agreement with a gender approach, an agreement signed between the extinct FARC guerrilla and the Colombian government in 2016.

It seeks to reach a deeper understanding by inviting us to decipher our perception of the world and how we relate to it. So we can see through its holes, through the illusion of consensual reality. When we do that, the world as we know it ends, and we experience a radical change in our perception, another way of seeing.

The reintegration process is an intermediate space, the place and the sign of transition, where we realize that realities collide.

Carol Montealegre (Colombia 1984)
Visual artist and filmmaker. Ms Montealegre studied Anthropology at the Universidad de los Andes with an emphasis on Art. In her degree practice she inserted tools from Augusto Boal’s “Theater of the Oppressed” in two rural schools of the Colombian Caribbean where she worked with children ranging in age from 6 to 15 years old for a period of year. She received a Master's degree in Visual Arts from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM.
While there, she wrote her thesis “The Permanency of the Ephemeral” an investigation into the experience of time / space from a philosophical and aesthetic approach, embodied in the human body as a support for the
experience in performance art. Recently her research and practice intersects cinema and performance art. She investigates the creation of experiences that allow the spectator and the performer to immerse themselves in other possible realities, for the sake of decolonization of the body, mind and soul. She currently runs an independent, self-managed Performance Art laboratory named Liminal Art Collective. She also collaborates with musician and composer Eric Hoegemeyer in the creation of experimental film under the name of Somnambulist_Films. She is currently enrolled in the MA of Human Rights & the Arts at Bard College NY where she is conducting a research project Howls in The Mountains working in Collaboration with a women union in Colombia called Asomhupaz. There she investigates the integration of traditional healing practices and its outcomes in their reincorporation process (most of them are indigenous descendants from the south of Colombia). The social project intersects healing, creative writing, oral
histories and Film.