Put everything into your work, but don’t give all of yourself to everyone – on the practice of Bodil Ouédraogo
“Put everything into your work, but don’t give all of yourself to everyone.” These words of Bodil Ouédraogo form a manifesto for a generation forging its way through the demands of an attention economy that calls for total transparency, immediate legibility, and spectacular revelations—writes her sister Rita Ouédraogo. “Her refusal resonates with Glissant’s argument for opacity: the insistence that we must preserve aspects of identity and culture that resist reduction to Western models of transparency and understanding.” This essay was written in convergence with the exhibition Crossing Threads, previously shown in gelijk is ongelijk, a project space on the former island of Marken.












