Through their Online Viewing Room, the Goodman Gallery presents Grada Kilomba’s exhibition Heroines, Birds and Monsters. The exhibition includes Kilomba’s new series of photographic works in which the artist aims to capture the complexity of the characters from her trilogy of films A World of Illusions, where she restages three Greek myths [Narcissus, Oedipus and Antigone] to explore memory, trauma, and the post-colonial condition. In dialogue with the photographs is the final installment of the trilogy, Illusions. Vol. III, Antigone (2019), which will be shown for the first time online.
A spokesperson for Goodman Gallery states, “The exhibition Heroines, Birds and Monsters is a continuation of the artist’s urgent questioning of the power structures implicit in the writing of history. Throughout the show, Kilomba asks ‘What if history has not been told properly? And what if our history is haunted by cyclical violence precisely because it has not been buried properly?’
“Critical to conveying this message is Kilomba’s position as the narrator of these films. Adopting this persona, as captured in the work Storyteller#1, Kilomba takes on the role of a griot, an African historian, storyteller, praise singer, poet, or musician. ‘The griot works like a human archive,’ says Kilomba. ‘They remind us of history and are able to revise history through music and the performance of voice, as the bringers of that knowledge.’”
For more information, visit the Goodman Gallery webpages.
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