BONETTA 2022
Video installation
Single Chanel HD Video Projection, Sound, Color, 7’33’’
Womanhood & Sustainability
CerModern Ankara
The Video installation Bonetta revisits the story of Sarah Forbes Bonetta, a Nigerian princess enslaved and later given as a gift to Queen Victoria. Using this historical episode as a point of departure, Jacomella Bonola constructs a visual metaphor for the ongoing struggle between freedom and subjugation. Through layered imagery and sound, the artist connects past and present systems of colonial, cultural, and gender domination.
The work oscillates between history and contemporary critique, exposing the intersections of art, politics, and identity. Bonetta transforms historical trauma into an act of remembrance and resistance, a call for the redefinition of identity in a fragmented global order.
Credits: © Patricia Jacomella Bonola