Kevin Osepa
by Kevin Osepa
A man once encountered two sisters in the Kloof, who told him he would crow like a rooster. When he got home he crowed like a rooster, collapsed, and was dead.
About this project
During the great slave revolt of 1795 (the most important rebellion leading up to the abolition of slavery), the Kloof was the site of a bloody confrontation between the enslaved people and the Dutch colonists. Though the associations with slavery have faded, it is still considered a place of evil and dark forces to this day. The people of Curaçao tell many stories about the sinister side of this spot. Statistically, a larger number of fatal car crashes also seem to happen here compared to the rest of the island. With his project, Kevin Osepa offers a new perspective on slavery in the past. This is not the perspective we find in Dutch history books, but the perspective of the stories that arose at this location.

© Kevin Osepa

© Kevin Osepa
About the artist: Kevin Osepa
Osepa was the winner of the ING Unseen Talent Award 2019 and has been nominated for awards including the Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prijs 2018 and Steenbergen Stipendium 2017.
What Forhanna did
The project’s format is also interesting for Forhanna and BredaPhoto. With its many layers and facets, the project lends itself to presentation on a variety of platforms. It will be shown at festivals, in museums (Amsterdam Museum – REFRESH – december 11th, 2020 – march 28th 2021) and commercial galleries, as a book and online. Within the model developed by Forhanna/BredaPhoto, ‘Kloof, village of spirits’ thus furnishes a new case.

© Kevin Osepa
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