Living and working from Saint Croix, part of the former Danish West Indies and current US Virgin Islands, visual artist La Vaughn Belle centers her investigation—through drawing, painting, video, installation, public intervention and performance—on coloniality, its implications and tangible marks and the effects in the past and present. How to make visible the unremembered? Belle pursuit of this crucial question through her engagement with elements of architecture, history and archeology are both masterful and lyrical, creating space to exploring social contexts and collective narratives. For Bienal 12 | Porto Alegre, Belle produced a large-scale version of the work Storm (And Other Violent Interruptions Of The Pintoresco) (2016-2020). Originally a series of charcoal drawings on paper, in this version the charcoal drawing is applied directly on the wall. Contrasting the sublime palm tree with images of the chaos of the storm, the work stands as a disruption to narratives of the picturesque oft-related to the Caribbean landscape in colonial discourse. It unveils the tension between ideas of fragility, vulnerability and resistance.