In this work we intend to analyze how the concept of autohistória, by the writer Glória Anzaldúa, while representative of the writer's life story, surpassing the limits of biography, becoming the history of her own people, can be a bridge of dialogue with the works by Brazilian artist Rosana Paulino. How talking about personal stories and their production as a place of tension, between the subject and the power structures of coloniality, can destabilize the field of Latin American contemporary art. Rethinking from the crossroads of the paths between the artists, observing the following problem: how do both appropriate artistic languages and autohistória as decolonial tools in artistic making from Latin America?