Alexandra Gelis is a Colombian-Venezuelan-Canadian media artist whose research-based, process-oriented practice spans film, photography, drawing, and media installations incorporating custom-built interactive electronics and sound. Her single-screen films and modular immersive non-fiction installations delve into the ecologies of various landscapes through personal field research, examining socio-political interventions. Gelis collaborates with communities across the Americas, focusing on the interplay between plants, people, and power in the context of colonization and globalization. Her concept of Migrant Plants explores plants as political allies in struggles against colonialism, war, and migratory and racial regimes, documenting the autonomous behavior of these plants. Gelis’s projects have been exhibited internationally across North and South America, Europe, and Africa. She holds a PhD in Environmental Studies and Urban Change.