Chromatics is a piece grounded in the necessity of a radical fight against racism, «radical» meaning that the fight should also be symbolic and conceptual in order to achieve two goals: first, exposing and eradicating racialization conditioning that creates through automatic thinking a mainly subconscious linguistic «apartheid» (Black/non-Black, White/non-White) that has very real social and political consequences ;
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Then proposing a human-centric perspective towards political action based on transeth-nic human values to replace ethno-centric essentialisations and categori-zations. Chapter I (Initiation) is a randomly generated poem containing 40 000 stanzas of four one-word lines.
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The stanzas are created by a program that combines 200 three-to-five-letters most common nouns in the English language, with the words «black» and «white». All the stanzas are reversible.
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In Chapter II (Resolution) the program creates a 160 000 stanzas poem this time with four color adjectives : «black», «blue», «red», «white». Chapter II contains Chapter I but both explodes and expands it.
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The poems are expressed or manifested in any possible form depending on the exhibition space, displayed on video, inscribed on paper, posters, books or mirrors, sewn, drawn, or spoken, printed on T-shirts and worn, performed rhythmically in morse code or through symbols, combined with other images, etc.
