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Grada Kilomba

In Conversation with Tina Campt

Thursday, May 11
5 – 6 PM EDT
540 West 25th Street
New York

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Grada Kilomba
In Conversation with Tina Campt
Thursday, May 11
5 – 6 PM EDT
540 West 25th Street
New York

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Pace Live is pleased to present Grada Kilomba in conversation with Tina Campt

This discussion will complement Kilomba’s presentation of her sculptural installation 18 Verses (2022), in collaboration with Goodman Gallery. Drawn from Kilomba’s acclaimed large-scale installation, O Barco | The Boat(2021), a 32-meter-long sculptural slave ship memorializing the Middle Passage,18 Verses continues using the boat as a metaphor to explore the relationship between power and historical repetition. This sculptural installation reveals the silhouette of a shipwreck, alluding to migrant routes across the Mediterranean and other global waters today, while also echoing images, gestures, and sounds that insinuate a sense of historical repetition. As the artist states, “When history is not told properly, its barbarity repeats itself.”

Kilomba will be joined by black feminist theorist Tina Campt, the Roger S. Berlind ’52 Professor of Humanities in the Department of Art and Archeology and the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University. Following the discussion, we will celebrate the opening of18 Verses with a public reception from 6–8 PM.

Grada Kilomba

Grada Kilomba is a Berlin-based Portuguese artist whose works draws on memory, trauma, gender, and post- colonialism, interrogating concepts of knowledge, power, and violence. “What stories are told? How are they told? And told by whom?” are constant questions in Kilomba’s body of work. Performances, staged readings, videos, sculptural installations, and sound pieces all become conduits for the artist’s unique practice of decolonial storytelling.

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