Grada KilombaThe Dictionary, 2019
Five-channel black and white video installation, HD, black and white, sound,10' size and looped.
Variable Dimensions
Grada Kilomba investigates how vocabulary becomes charged with meaning. 'The Dictionary' is a five-channel video installation exploring the overlapping and colliding definitions of terms like "denial," "guilt," "recognition," "reparation," and "shame", first presented at Documenta 14 in 2017. The words are projected in the walls of the room, creating a chronology of consciousness, until they disappear again, leaving the audience enveloped in a sound installation.
