In a more recent performance at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, Kaersenhout painted the white walls of this institution — named after Witte Corneliszoon de With, a high-ranking VOC naval — black. She also signed an open letter, confronting the institute with its name and its superficial dedication in reflecting on its own position. “The bodies and artistic productions of Black and non-Black people of colour are de rigueur on institutional menus, the sought after flavour in these times of lip-service ‘intersectionality’. White art institutions, whether they carry the name of a colonizer or not, are ‘excited’ to engage with feminist, queer, Black, intersectional and decolonial perspectives as long as these critical interventions are framed as discourses and stripped of their radical potential and praxes.”