Performance: The Bottom of the Earth
Closing Performance: The Bottom of the Earth
To mark the closing of Grada Kilomba’s exhibition The Bottom of the Earth, we invite you to a performance conceived by the artist, which approaches the bottom of the Earth as an archive of human existence. In collaboration with dancer David Amado and percussionist Martinica Trovoada, the artist explores silences, presences, and absences through music and movement, in dialogue with the artworks.
General Information
Schedule: 27.09, 15:30–17:30
Age: All ages
The performance is free, as is admission to the exhibition from 15:00–17:00.
About Grada Kilomba
Grada Kilomba is a Portuguese artist whose work interrogates concepts of memory, trauma, violence and historical repetition. Kilomba is best known for her subversive and unique practice of storytelling, in which she gives body, voice, form and movement to silenced stories – using performance, dance, video, text, sculpture, installation and sound landscapes.
In her immersive large-scale works, Kilomba exercises what she describes as ‘poetic disobedience’, a mode in which radical poetic images interrupt the collective imaginary and the cycle of prevalent historical violence, both in narratives and architectures, inside and outside, in the public space.
