Katja Diao

My mother and father called me Katja Diao Gano, my mother says that I am of Spanish nationality (legally speaking); really born in Senegal, Africa. In my papers it is written that I landed in Spain at the age of five and they have made me feel that since then the work of my life has been directed by whites and by my family. I must confess that the memories I have of my childhood are miserable and that what little I remember begins after my compulsory entry into primary school. Just graduated from the performing arts career at the University of Gerona, Escola Universitaria ERAM. I think I am the result of an experiment, I do not recognize my face or body. I have a memory that I do not remember and that does not belong to me. I am in a scenario where there is land: well, I am yet another heir to the blurred history. I have a dream of a thousand demons: to defend the history of memory and black identity, to bet on African theater, to decolonize the mind and the body.

• 2020 · collaboration with Africa Moment · Hermana, ya no podemos ni quejarnos