Eaten By The Heart.
All About Expressing Love
in Africa and The African Diaspora.
“Eaten By The Heart” is an ongoing video installation series by Nigerian-born filmmaker and video artist Zina Saro-Wiwa. The pieces explore relationships, love and expressions of love by black people. Here are some video excerpts from the project.
EATEN BY THE HEART (Interview excerpts)
by ZINA SARO-WIWA from ZSW Studio on Vimeo.
EATEN BY THE HEART Part II: DAMIEN
from ZSW Studio on Vimeo.
EATEN BY THE HEART III: BREATHING ORCHESTRA
by Zina Saro-Wiwa from ZSW Studio on Vimeo.
Eaten By The Heart is a video installation and documentary project conceived, produced and directed by film-maker and video artist, Zina Saro-Wiwa. This online documentary (above) is the final installment in a series of three online films that form part of this project for The Progress of Love.
Commissioned by The Menil Collection, Houston and supported by the Houston Museum of African American Culture (HMAAC.org) for the Menil’s previous exhibition The Progress of Love, the piece explores intimacy, heartbreak and love performances among Africans and African Diasporans.
Eaten By The Heart forms part of Zina’s video performance practice which currently focuses on the mapping of emotional landscapes, its resulting performative behaviors and cross-cultural implications She states: “So many of us cite with confidence that Love Is Universal. But the performance of love is, it seems, cultural. I wonder how the impact of how we choreograph and culturally organize the performance of love impacts what we feel inside and who we become.”
The documentary aspect of the Eaten By The Heart project has been expressed in three online films throughout the life of The Progress of Love exhibition. The video installation – an hour-long series of kissing performances – was on view inside the Menil Collection and came down on 17th March 2013.
For more information on this and other works by Zina Saro-Wiwa visit: zinasarowiwa.com