Voices Amplified, 2025 Audiovisual installation
Artists- Curator / Team
- with Michaela Lakova
Voices Amplified draws parallels between prominent political activists and leaders, by using excerpts of political speeches of Thomas Sankara — an influential revolutionary figure from Burkina Faso and Helmin Wiels — political leader from Curaçao. Both of them launched an unprecedented series of social, ecological, and economic reforms in their own countries, and were tragically assassinated. Visually, the installation weaves together archival images of political uprisings,Sankara and Wiels—intercut with abstract, video textures and found media, street movements, police brutality spread worldwide.The audio is composed of layers, looped excerpts from Sankara’s & Wiles’ speeches—urgent, clear, and prophetic —interwoven with African beats, chanting, distortion, and multilingual spoken-word narration composed by Krönstadt.