Ndota cha ndani
A multi-channel, audial and multi-sensoral video installation piece that attempts to reveal aspects of the inner world of a Swahili womans dreamscape using the structure and metaphorical architecture of a Swahili home as the medium.
The piece uses archival footage reclaimed and installed in a new context that allows the revealing of the often protected and private world of the Swahili femme and the intimate spaces within her. The viewer is allowed to enter or can stand outside of the walls. As you enter deeper into the final space, the ndani (inner room), you are then exposed to the suggestions of this quieter, hidden world. The piece works with ideas that of the colonized opaqueness but also vageueness to challenge the viewer into understanding that perhaps somethings are better off left unexposed and that the force of revealing can be violent and the hidden is where the preservation of a people resides.