This text presents coloniality as an epistemological coloniality (abyssal thinking), stressing the need for an epistemological renewal in order to exit the colonial circuit. Particularly interesting is the fact that Sousa not only points the problem out, but also proposes a solution based on the concept of “ecology of knowledge”. Ecological thinking is understood as a counter-epistemology, which recognizes the plurality of heterogeneous thoughts and emphasizes the dynamic interconnections which exist between them. Faced with an entrenched monocultural conception of knowledge (and, by extension, art), the “ecology of knowledge” conceives knowledge as an “intervention in reality” rather than a hierarchization of Western knowledge about other forms of knowing.(P.B.L.)