The installation B L A C K I S A BEAUTIFUL WORD. I & I consists of an archive photo, as well as a large newly produced video projection that shows a floating portrait of eight black women, accompanied by a poetic voice over. In the archive photo we encounter the woman Sarah. Sarah is seen in a white ball gown sitting on a porch of a house on St. Croix. In her eyes one feels that she does not belong, not as a maid in the former Danish West Indies, nor as a model for the owner of the house, the Danish pharmacist and amateur pho-tographer Alfred Paludan- Müller’s pleasure. The gaze is at the center and the work thus raises questions about the beholder and the obser ved, about power and resistance as well as about the black female body and existence, across time and place.