This video installation brings us into a classroom in Curaçao, where Dutch is the official language of instruction while Papiamentu remains the language of emotion and home. The classroom emerges as a paradoxical space one that both shapes and limits how we perceive ourselves.

Learning multilingually is a layered experience: it broadens horizons even as it erases parts of identity, leaving traces of absence alongside new possibilities. The work reflects on colonial education systems and the courage it takes to find one’s voice within them. It asks how the classroom shapes ways of thinking that influence identity, resilience, and resistance.

In the installation, the viewer’s shadow falls across one of the projected classrooms partially obscuring the scene without ever erasing it. Two projections face each other, both showing me as an adult re-entering my former school setting, writing and listening to the sound of chalk without ever seeing what is being written. The loop echoes pedagogy itself: much is taught, yet much remains untaught.