Baobab: The Tree of Oblivion

Baobab is an immersive Mixed Reality experience that explores embodied memory, movement, and landscape as tools for engaging with histories of the African diaspora. Through immersive visual and sensory storytelling, the project invites audiences to reflect on how place, body, and memory intersect across geographies shaped by forced migration and return.

The baobab functions as a narrative and sensory anchor within the VR experience, connecting Brazil, West Africa, and the Atlantic as a shared historical and affective space.

Rather than presenting a fixed narrative, Baobab offers an open encounter. Shadows, textures, and sounds shift as audiences circulate the space, allowing each visitor’s presence to subtly reshape the experience. The installation reflects on how bodies remember—how migration, work, ritual, and resistance leave imprints that continue to resonate long after the original moment has passed.

Baobab asks a quiet but urgent question: what do our bodies carry, and how do these embodied memories speak to one another across places and generations? Rooted yet expansive, the installation becomes a meeting point—between past and present, stillness and movement, individual experience and collective history—inviting audiences to feel, rather than simply understand, the echoes that live within us.

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