Teia de Palma

Taking care of our body, its place in the world and the effects of our actions on it, leads to a total reassessment of our individual role in the preservation of an organism that interpenetrates our corporeality and whose resources are increasingly scarce in the current capitalist colonial project.

Being displaced from family and society for reasons of recognition of cultural (ancestral), gender and ethnic identity, respectively, I come face to face with the understanding that the unique exhaustion that I’ve been going through happens in parallel with the exhaustion of the seed from which palm oil is extracted, increasingly difficult to find in its natural state in the markets of the countries in which its use is intimately connected to its practices and cultural traditions. Since palm oil is a food with great ancestral weight in African culture, I explore its use as a way to nourish the memory of my origins.
– Saphira Nancy

This project was shown at chumbo,between 8th - 17th of December 2021.