“Some names are not eulogies, just inscriptions on a tomb. But they were here. And they lived.”
For her performance, Zaïre Krieger chose the Names Monument, a digital monument currently containing some 220,000 names of people enslaved in Indonesia, Suriname and Curaçao. In her work, she reflects on the value of names by interacting with the museum’s database of the names of enslaved people.
Zaïre: “If names have been used for decades by colonial powers to create narratives, dehumanize and appropriate, how do we place our names within the larger system of descent, intersectionality, and ultimately our own identity?”
