Grada Kilomba’s World of Illusions flips white-dominated story conventions on their head - Kilomba’s latest installation is a trilogy of filmed performance pieces that interpret Greek mythology through a black feminist and decolonial lens
The subject matter is research-based and carried out through a unique combination of visual languages. Kilomba’s publicationIn her work, she is contending with how conceptions of human, good and respectability rely on blackness being defined as the opposite; she works to understand how through all realms of society, black, brown and indigenous have been drawn on the outside of those definitions.
Throughout the life and death of the characters, a red ribbon is used to wrap and constrict them. And at the end of this piece, a slow-motion shot of each character tearing at the tape and screaming plays. In addition to critically analysing the text of each story and flipping it on its head, Kilomba brings black storytelling conventions into the works. In each of the three pieces, she is pictured in an adjacent screen to the main act, functioning as a griot. The griot, considered to have its origins in West Africa, is an orator, a storyteller, who plays a vital role in maintaining and building the oral archive of a community’s history.
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