We've come a long way

Recently, Emma’s father in law gave her a suitcase full of colonial archive material from Suriname. When the Black Lives Matter protests break out and she discovers that she is pregnant, she realises that in her baby different strands of Surinamese history will be coming together: black and white, the coloniser and the colonised. In a letter to her child, she explores the impact of this heritage and the colour of your skin. How can she prepare her for this?

In 2019 Emma won the Karen de Bok talent prize at the IDFA-NPO workshop with this project.