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Published for the first time in 1971, Open Veins of Latin America, written by the Uruguayan Eduardo Galeano (1940–2015), is a timeless classic that delves into the power dynamics shaping the particularities of this region. Two years after the book’s release, the band Secos & Molhados records the song “Sangue latino” [“Latin Blood”], which includes the line “The north wind doesn’t set [our] windmills into motion”, a phrase that gives Geórgia Kyriakakis’s exhibition its title. In this context, the term “north wind” is a metaphor for the colonial power of Europe, identified as responsible …