Pronouncing Parsley In A Massacre
by Astrid González
In October 1937, the Dominican dictator, General Rafael Trujillo, ordered the assassination of all Black bodies in the territories within his borders who, by default, wrongly pronounced the trivial word "perejil"*.
That year, he began to fortify the walls and blocks of concrete that divided his Dominican territory with the Haitian. Shameless as they were, his actions created a river dividing the Creole from the Spanish, the “African” from the “ European ”, and the “ barbarian ” from the “civilized”.
Astrid González, Pronunciar Perejil en la masacre (2021)
*Parsley in spanish.
Astrid González is a Colombian artist working between Colombia and Chile. Her work explores the historical processes of Afrodescendants on the American continents. She is the author of the book Ombligo cimarrón. Investigación creación, published in 2019. González has exhibited in Chile and Colombia, most recently at the Museum of Modern Art of Medellin.