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Artists' Statement
The House of Slaves on Gorée Island is a sacred, spiritual mecca representing the transformational passage of descendants whose ancestors were displaced from continental Africa through the Trans-Atlanta slave trade. The structure speaks to architectural beatification by Black ancestral spirits. The Door of No Return within The House is a threshold that defines a critical moment of cultural diasporic creation and displacement of spirit and identity. The Slave House is a memorial to the trauma of ancestral separation, its cultural memory transmitted through every step taken toward The Door of No Return, and through the common experience of displacement and identity that emotionally connects the present with the past as we transcend its threshold.
