“Esconderte del mundo y en ti mismo esconderte” is an immersive installation by Jacoub Reyes detailing the rise and fall of the sugar plantation system in Puerto Rico. The title, translated to “hide from the world and hide in yourself,” is an excerpt from Julia de Burgos’ best-known poem, “Rio Grande de Loiza”. In this poem, Burgos’ childhood landscape emerges as a driving force for her memories and reveals the harm and grief of her island, enslaved by colonialism. Throughout this site-specific installation, Reyes uses contrasting visual tropes to create connections between displacement, memory, cultural preservation, and notions of home. He focuses on the lasting social, political, and ecological effects of the colonial experience through the interior of a sugar mill ruin. The installation features a variety of multi-media, including video, audio, assemblage, screen prints, woodcuts, painting, and textile works. Through this, he aims to excavate histories lost, forgotten, and buried beneath us. Live Bomba performance by Raíces Cultural Center’s folkloric ensemble, Raíces Caribeñas.