Pawòl sé van (les mots sont le vent, words are wind) Video directed as the following of the video Toli Toli, 2020
video HD color, with sound, 13min
Pawòl sé van takes weaving as a paradigm to recompose storytelling. As it is the continuity of the video Toli Toli, it draws on the land as a poetic voice to hear the coloniality of the situation of Guadeloupe nowdays but also its heritage. Pawol sé van uses metaphors based on perception and natural forces existing in the sourrounding. Here when «the eyes get closed», the wind, the hurricane, the smoke, the mouvements of the air are heard as resisting strenghts enunciating the relation existing with agriculture, particularly banana fields and the poisonning of the soils with chlordécone. The wind is a form of resistance, a constant reminder that despite french colonial assimilation, despossession, and a dramatic ecocide the lands keeps talking.