Grada Kilomba

The Chorus, 2017

'The Chorus' (2017) is a wall installation based on the artist's previous literary work and her very unique practice of exploring the performative aspects of her texts. This piece is the result of an experimental work with actors from the African Diaspora, during rehearsals for a staged reading, in Berlin. Kilomba developed the repetition of the most emotional and evocative phrases for the actors, and composed the chorus.

Playing with the idea of a manifesto, the final poem is printed on a large wall, exposing the most subtle, but traumatic and violent forms of everyday racism.

“Her work underlines the perpetuation of colonialism. A proud and irreducible political and feminist interpellation, and it explodes in lucid writing.”- Visão Magazine