Showroom | Curaçao/ Netherlands

Kontemplashon di Multiplisidat den Kontekstonan

Contemplation of Multiplicity Within Contexts

Opreshon, Resistensia, Mi Lenga

Video art (3 Screens). 1:17minutes. 2021

Three videos with three different languages that play a big role within this body (body of a Curaçaoan woman), Papiamentu, Dutch and English. One represents comfort/freedom/way to express, second one oppression/the language that was forced on a body, and the last one the language of resistance in the context of The Netherlands.

Ken mi ta na Kòrsou?

Media and performance art. 4:31 minutes. 2020
(Credits Ailsa Anastatia, Ayanna de Windt, Mari Boyé)

While dragging a rake on the floor of a garden filled with tiles, sanitized/clean/without dirt, I contemplate the idea of embodiment of my ancestors working on the field in the sun. I’m also questioning the multiplicity within my identity. Video was filmed in Curaçao.

Ken mi ta na Hulanda?

Media and performance art. 3:10 minutes. 2021
(Credits to Arlette Ricardo + Mari Boyé, Fiordana Jantji, Nohely Simon)

The black body may be adaptable to the cold, but the chain of our not accepted colonial past differences  is still a heavy weight we have to cope with every day.  Video was filmed in The Netherlands.

Riba Mi Skalchi

Documentation of Performance 
Video 1 (In The Netherlands). 6:44 minutes. 2021
(Behind camera Zurishaddai Tremus)

Documentation of Performance 
Video 2 (In The Netherlands).
5:57 minutes. 2021
(Behind camera Zurishaddai Tremus)

Documentation of Performance 
Video 3 (Residency in UniArte, Curaçao ). 14:26 minutes. 2020
(Behind camera Zurishaddai Tremus)

Cheese on my plate, the weight I have to carry everywhere because of colonialism. 
Cheese on my plate, are we still waiting for them to feed us?
 Cheese on my plate, will it forever be on my plate?

About the artist Najendra Caldera

In 2018 she graduated with a BA in fine art (2018) from Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. In her graduation year she was nominated for the Drempelprijs and the Maaskantprijs both from WdKA. After that she performed at several art institutes in The Netherlands like Het Nieuwe Institute, Rotterdam(2018/2020) Where she performed “Di Tera Nos Ta Bin Di Tera Nos Ta Bai II, and now she is still collaborating within the exhibition G/D Thyself: Spirit Strategy On Raising Free Black Children, in Galerie Lecq, Rotterdam(2018). She collaborated with a former classmate on a performance called “My Broken Tongue”. TAC, Eindhoven(2019). Nash performed the “Adorá Yemayá Tapá” which was a live performance inspired form a video performance she made before, Framer Frame werkplaats Molenwijk, Amsterdam(2019). Caldera did a performance called “Mansa” which was part of the opening of the “Van Amulet tot Artefact” exhibition, Worm (s/ash Gallery), Rotterdam (2019). She was a participant in the project “WHO AM I BECOMING” which was made into a film and screened at IFFR (2020).

Curador: Nelson Gonzalez & Gerardo Zavarce
Producción: Zurishaddai Tremus

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