“History is not the past. It is the stories we tell about the past. How we tell these stories – triumphantly or self-critically, metaphysically or dialectally – has a lot to do with whether we cut short or advance our evolution as human beings. ” Grace Lee Boggs

Odete works among the mediums of writing, music, performing arts and visual arts. With an autobiographical tone, he mixes the intimate and the political, questioning the concept of belonging, of trans narratives and ways of making sadness, fragility and “failure” visible as political powers. In the performance he conceives for the BoCA Online cycle, Odete uses fiction to question the historical mechanisms of narrative construction and legitimation: ”, He explains. “I decide to lie about history and archeology using the same techniques and tools that time has revealed as producing truths, and the past then becomes a political strategy to enroll those who are not in it so that the future can move beyond order of things that some have defined as our ancestry. ”