Multilingual Book in collaboration with Lilly Axter, Christine Aebi & Jaray Fofana, 2018

„I’ve always wanted the whole cake, just like you, not only one piece.“ Wisdom left by charismatic Chioma for 9-year-old Terry, who is remembering her „Mom Chioma“ through all the well-known little objects in her otherwise already empty flat. Somewhere in between tender memories, Terry is fiercely creating her own future in Lagos, Freetown, and Vienna, right where she belongs.

You are on point, Terry, just cool, just you.“ It is a work of art that is presuppositional, but which succeeds in not naming what cannot yet be named with our linguistic means, and yet in telling everything, in making clear what it is all about.

The large, sometimes zoomed-in, collage-like and above all colorful images underline this complexity. When Mom Chioma dies, Terry feels empty: “Why did she take all these words with her?” We should all feel, find, speak words like Mom Chioma, so that no one feels empty, but everyone feels perfect.