What secrets do plants keep when the sun goes down?? Grace Tjang, born in Surabaya (Indonesia), invites us to cross the threshold of the visible in MALAM / NIGHT, a performative installation that is, in essence, an act of historical reparation and an immersion in the gloom. Inspired by the Javanese Wayang shadow theater and mystical observation of her own garden, Barkey engages in dialogue with the dark to re-imagine the forms of what we were and what we are..
Mr. Tjang, sustainability does not only reside in the physical landscape, but in the ecology of memory. In a gesture of profound political and artistic resonance, the creator decides to decolonize her own name, adopting his grandmother's. It is a tribute to the voices silenced by colonial history, especially to those women whose work and existence were discarded and forgotten by time.
En NIGHT / NIGHT, the stage becomes a refuge where the wounds of the past are exposed to the moonlight to be, at last, named.
