For more than two decades, Mabel Llevat has done work related to decolonisation. As an artist, heritage memory researcher, curator and cultural administrator, she has made visible the persistence of colonial memories in monuments, archives, collections and public spaces. Her work raises critical reflections about the topics of memory, identity and social justice in a range of platforms and organisations committed to activism and community resistance today.

Born in Havana, Cuba, she has worked for well-known institutions such as Casa de las Américas and Fototeca de Cuba, both of which have archives essential to preserving the art and memory of subalternised communities. She has worked on curating projects for international events including the Havana Biennial, Festival Paiz in Guatemala, the Popular Culture and Cultural Diversity Days run by the Catalan government in Barcelona, Le Mois de la Photo in Paris and the Museus (Im)possibles season organised by the Espai Avinyó for the Museu Tàpies, as well as centres like CENAF in Caracas, the Metis gallery in Amsterdam and the Imaging Inequality programme at the University of Bergen, Norway.

She currently combines anti-colonial routes with educational work on networks in which she explores Barcelona's links to the process of enslavement that laid the basis for racial capitalism. These routes have been organised within the networks of educational, cultural and civic centres in Barcelona, and feature in the programme of institutions like Xarxa de Biblioteques de Barcelona, Consorci per a la Normalització Linguística, Centre d'Arts Santa Mònica, Espai Avinyó and others.