"I

translate

human

tragedy

into

poetic

images,

sometimes

chilling

and

frightening."

The

subversive

and

unique

art

of

Grada

Kilomba

Grada Kilomba is one of the most respected voices on the international art scene. Born in Lisbon, she grew up in the Sintra and Mercês neighborhoods, and soon settled in Berlin, where she lives and works between the big city and, more recently, the town of Sintra. Her widely recognized works are part of some of the world's most important collections, exhibited in major museums, and seen as an important contribution to the discussion on issues of identity in a global context.

Grada Kilomba develops an artistic practice grounded in an attention to form, image, movement, sound, and language. Her work is not based on the idea of ​​representing content, but rather on the need to find, for each narrative, a form that sustains it, anchored in a sensitive architecture where experience can emerge. In her immersive, large-scale installations, Kilomba tells stories, poses questions, and explores the concepts of memory, trauma, repetition, cyclical violence, and postcolonialism, using video, performance, spatial, sculptural, and sound installations.

«I work with the incomprehensible, each work is a letter of a new alphabet to try to understand what has never been understood.»