SOULÉ DÉESSE
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Media: superimpose paintings, drawings and super 8 film, hybrid with experimental sounds, and performance exported to HD video on a LED monitor in a wooden box.


Words become Butterflies (2017, 09:09 min) an experimental non-linear performative narrative on cultural traditionalism that comments upon accepted practices of body modifications in my grandmother’s homeland of Benin, with performance on 8mm film transferred to video, fused with painting and experimental sounds from the Gulf of Guinea. In many cultures, systematic violence and traditional practices of body mutilation have denied a woman’s right over her body. Through visual narrative and experimental sounds, this film lends voice to what remains a muted debate in the 21st century and grants both body and memory their right to speak.





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  • home
  • projects
    • hermafrodek: op.1 no.2 interactive & immersive environment 2022
    • hermafrodek op.1 no.1 2015-2021
    • new pantheon 2022-
    • grandmé 2021
    • the dwellers 2021-22
    • the messengers 2021
    • we are the same under the sky 2020
    • unhidden graves 2019
    • passepartout: afrolandscape (2019-)
    • je suis ce que je suis 2018
    • words become butterflies 2017
    • dance with me 2016
    • vagabonds of the caribbean 2013
    • blingblingguninthebaggie 2013
    • paperbag test documentary diaristic-style videos 2012-2022
    • paper bag test: white noise (2012-)
    • paperbag test portraits 2011-2022
    • pain/T 2000-2015
  • about
    • artist statement
    • bio
  • contact
    • contact