Reading 5 – Friday, October 13th, 7pm
Wi get ears, mek wi hye, wi get eyes, mek wi nye by Anges Essonti Luque
We are excited to announce the upcoming edition of the Reading Room, which will take place from the 13th of September to the 13th of October. Curated by Tsering Frykman-Glen.
During this time, the gallery will once more be converted into a reading space – a place to sit, meet, be, and read. We will be open to the public Wednesday to Friday from 12 – 16h, and for our weekly Friday evening events from 19h. This year we will feature readings and text or book-based activities by Agnes Essonti Luque, Agustina Fiorretti, Radial Radiant, Mark Shorter and Ana Vala.
Reading 5 // Wi get ears, mek wi hye, wi get eyes, mek wi nye by Anges Essonti Luque
“In my house, the language of bandits is spoken. My uncles and aunts, all of them speak the language of bandits. Once my father told me that he had never heard his mother or grandmother speak anything other than pidgin. When I was little, I didn’t speak it myself, but I listened to it, not like someone who listens to music without paying attention, but like someone who feels each word and learns them by heart.” – Agnes Essonti Luque
Through the collective reading of a song in pidgin, Essonti opens us up to this language, understood as more than a simple mix, a challenge to existing structures, a way of infiltrating, an expansion, more than the sum of its parts. Language as a form of resistance.
