WanaWana 's video: Dirty Laundry Documentary Film Lagos

Writer, Poet and Performer Wana Udobang, presents her first mixed media installation, Dirty Laundry. This installation is an immersive experience interconnecting personal narratives, histories, experiences, and imaginaries as a form of catharsis for the poet and the viewer. Featuring poems screen printed on canvas hanging from laundry lines, the installation also included tailored public facing performances that explores issues around womanhood, sexual and gender violence, feminine agency, healing and reimagination. The hanging poems tell many personal stories for the viewer to experience whilst walking through the space, a physical representation of the metaphor “hanging your dirty laundry in public”. In our society, “To wash one’s dirty laundry in public” is often used with respect to shame. In this case, however, the poet intends to create a platform for difficult discussions to happen. At the core of this work is using words to break silence and shame we carry from experiences that have often been inflicted by society and its culture of silence. Dirty Laundry is supported by Ford Foundation.