As part of the performance Returning the Gaze that Sites of Memory made in 2022, 130 portraits printed on fabric were displayed across the Abdijplein in Middelburg. This commemorative gesture honored 130 enslaved men, women, and children from Angola who were forced to stand there in 1596. They were prisoners aboard the ship of merchant Pieter van der Hagen and captain Melchior van den Kerckhoven. A viewing day was organized on the Abdijplein on November 18, during which they were exhibited to people in the city. As baptized Christians they could live in freedom, however two weeks later they were again enslaved by the government of the Dutch Republic. After about 6 months of imprisonment in Middelburg, they were reembarked and sold in the West Indies. 

Because no names or images of them remain, their likenesses are represented as silhouettes, giving them presence and dignity. Behind each face is a lusona, which are sand drawings used as a mnemonic device by the Chokwe people of Angola to help remember proverbs, fables, games, riddles and animals, and to transmit knowledge. Five different lusona, namely creation, marriage, friendship, tortoise and antelope, are used. Healing plants frame the bottom of each silhouette.