Following the Sun. Agnes Essonti Luque

Unguent

Water, juniper, palm oil, honey, coconut milk, catfish, popcorn… An offering to heal every wound. Actions that heal. That strip off layers of dead skin. Of atrophied limbs. Of poisoned ghosts.

Agnes Essonti Luque will be entering into a ritualistic dialogue based on Ibori, a Yoruba ritual that aims to satisfy your Ori (a consciousness of the hereafter) through offerings, especially food. In front of Tàpies’ Mitjó [Sock], the Cameroonian–Spanish artist will use a series of unguents, making her own body into the medium. With these actions, the artist seeks to share with the audience ways of neutralising the frustrations of the past, offering a possible solution through simple gestures that, with repetition, become sacred. She invites us to recognise that rituals are for everybody and to realise that they can help to connect to ancestral wisdom, fonts of hidden powers, reserves of vitality and arsenals of protection.