Yinka Esi Graves

The flamenco dancer Yinka Esi Graves responds to Wu Tsang’s new film installation in the MACBA’s Chapel. Tsang’s multichannel video and sound installation is part of his exploration of the myth of Carmen, the young Roma/flamenco woman who inspired the celebrated —yet problematic— nineteenth-century opera by the French composer Georges Bizet. The story of Carmen is set in Seville, where Graves currently lives, and through her own work she explores the mythologies of flamenco and its “black sounds”. Graves and Tsang are engaged in an ongoing dialogue about the many sides of Carmen through live flamenco improvisation, accompanied on the drum by Remi Graves.