an inheritance / a threat / a haunting, video installation, print series, custom curtains, 2022
In 'an inheritance /a threat / a haunting’, Nnebe replicates the steps taken by enslaved Africans to transform cassava into a poison and weapon to be used against slave masters. Through this work, these steps are reimagined as a recipe passed down from generation to generation - a transmission from ancestors long gone - for how to assert one's subjectivity in the face of dehumanization.
Key words: Black rage; trans-atlantic slave trade; the wake; poison; domestic labour; femininity; archives; Jamaica; resistance; food