KALAKUTA IS A WOMAN

Kalakuta Is A Woman offers a modern vision of what life, intimacy and collective energy might have looked like within Fela Kuti's Kalakuta Republic.

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For a long time, the women of Kalakuta were reduced to a secondary image, despite holding a central place within that artistic, political and deeply human ecosystem.

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With this project, the intention was to shift the gaze back onto their presence, their collective power and the way they inhabited spaces, bodies and everyday moments.

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Each scene is conceived as a feeling rather than a reconstruction,  a warmth, a tension, a closeness.