For our fifth and final reading Wi get ears, mek wi hye, wi get eyes, mek wi nye, Agnes Essonti Luque invites us to join her in a collective reading of a song in pidgin.
"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, Agnes 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.
Agnes Essonti Luque is a Cameroonian and Spanish artist from l’Hospitalet de Llobregat. With a strong connection to her African roots, she grew up in a multicultural environment that has greatly influenced her work.