Exhibition StatementClémence Lollia Hilaire's Harvest, presented at Vleeshal from 20 October to 15 December 2024, featured a single-channel video work accompanied by four sculptural elements. Set in a dystopian fertility clinic, the film resurrects three historical figures—Anarcha, Betsey, and Lucy—Black teenage girls subjected to non-consensual gynaecological experiments in the 19th-century American South. Through a speculative, zombie-film-inspired narrative, Harvest explores the legacy of medical violence, the objectification of Black female bodies, and the transformation of pain into resistance. The installation was further activated through sculptural interventions, including water dispensers filled with medicinal plant infusions, referencing inherited trauma and historical silence. Drawing on both local context and transatlantic histories, the exhibition interrogated the thresholds between body and flesh, history and futurity, life and death.