Grada KilombaTable of Goods, 2017
Installation with soil, sugar, coffee beans, ground coffee, cocoa, dark chocolate and candles
Variable Dimensions
Grada Kilomba’s distinctive practice draws on the repressed history of colonialism and its traumatic legacy to create new forms of knowledge. In her emotive installation Table of Goods (2017), Kilomba memorialises centuries of labour and deaths of black bodies on sugar and chocolate plantations.
