Love Before the Colonization of Mars

Love Before the Colonization of Mars presents a violent fictional history of Mars. In the background, silhouetted flying saucers and fighter jets engage in combat. The “love” depicted is really a rampant lust erupting amid explosions and a decapitated Martian corpse. Though seen through the lens of science fiction and quite fantastical, Villalongo’s imagined scene of colonial violence on faraway Mars brings to mind the very real histories and violence of colonization on Earth.