audio installation (3 meter high, 90 cm wide),
audio cabine made from recycled work clothes,
covered with text paintings and laser engravings ,
audio work DE + EN, speaker Jeanne-Ange Wagne.
Thanks to family Eyidi and family Ekwe Bilé.

Joseph Ekwe Bilé with daugther Grace Suzanne Eyidi (born Eyango Ekwe), laser engraving detail of the audio cabine exhibition view Scriptings, Berlin 2023

JOSEPH EKWE BILÉ

The audio work Joseph Ekwe Bilé (1892-1959) is dedicated to Joseph Ekwe Bilé. Joseph Ekwe Bilé is Part III of the work BLACK LIVES AUDIO TRIPTYCH. It uncovers traces of the history of Black people in Germany who were part of the workers movement and is a multidirectional reminder of past and present anti-racist struggles.

The speaker who brings Joseph Ekwe Bilé to life in the work is the German-Cameroonian cultural producer Jeanne-Ange Wagne.

Joseph Ekwe Bilé, audio installation exhibition view Scriptings, Berlin 2023